"It's very similar to the argument against using vim plugins for fear that you won't know how to use vi on servers or other peoples' machines."
Using vim plugins on your development machine should only add value to your standard commands. You still use standard vim commands to move around and manipulate text. And noone expects you to modify whole application on server, so you don't need those extra plugins for project manipulation, code completion (you still can type, right?) or highlighting
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer's_day