A fairly frequent (though sometimes merely strongly implied) retort is that command line editors can also be very powerful but require much more skill — which you yourself as an IDE user maybe don’t have. I’m always baffled by that response, since I have no desire to expend skill and effort on those functionalities which, as you mention, are purely the basics of any proper IDE (in the same way that I don’t see typing speed as a developer skill).
Agreed. I am aware that VIM, Emacs and so on can be very powerful in the right hands. However, I have no intention to step into these realms. I'm not the biggest fan of command line interfaces to begin with, and most certainly I do not want to edit my code in those.
However, typing speed is an issue. It is because of laggy typing that I switched from Eclipse to IntelliJ. I wouldn't say that any one is strictly better than the other, but a laggy cursor in a text editor is something that drives me absolutely crazy, so I can understand this criticism to some extent ;)
Ah, I wasn’t referring to lagging/stalling, but rather to a person’s ability to to e.g. type 100 word per minute. Lagging/stalling is indeed an issue for some IDEs, and also for me the reason why I very luch prefer Intellij over Eclipse.
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A fairly frequent (though sometimes merely strongly implied) retort is that command line editors can also be very powerful but require much more skill — which you yourself as an IDE user maybe don’t have. I’m always baffled by that response, since I have no desire to expend skill and effort on those functionalities which, as you mention, are purely the basics of any proper IDE (in the same way that I don’t see typing speed as a developer skill).
Agreed. I am aware that VIM, Emacs and so on can be very powerful in the right hands. However, I have no intention to step into these realms. I'm not the biggest fan of command line interfaces to begin with, and most certainly I do not want to edit my code in those.
However, typing speed is an issue. It is because of laggy typing that I switched from Eclipse to IntelliJ. I wouldn't say that any one is strictly better than the other, but a laggy cursor in a text editor is something that drives me absolutely crazy, so I can understand this criticism to some extent ;)
Ah, I wasn’t referring to lagging/stalling, but rather to a person’s ability to to e.g. type 100 word per minute. Lagging/stalling is indeed an issue for some IDEs, and also for me the reason why I very luch prefer Intellij over Eclipse.