You just described vim point for point.

I *hate* Windows editors of the MSVC sort... when I had to do some development on Windows, I found myself pulling my hair rather too often. And then I downloaded vim precompiled for Windows from http://vim.sf.net/. Never looked back. You can even use it from MSVC -- even if MSVC users frown at the kind of "integration" that's possible (it won't embed in MSVC)