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Discussion on: Who said that VIM cannot compete with IDEs?

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Ian Johnson

I've been using Vim and the command line together as an IDE for quite a while now. I started this after reading Unix as IDE.

Bonus: I got really good with tools like grep and find because I had to run them myself instead of clicking a button in an IDE.

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Grigor Bezirganyan

Yes, by combining several unix commands like grep, find, awk, etc. you can achieve most of the functionalities of the IDE. The bad thing is they are a bit hard to learn, but over time when you master them, they seem too easy to use :)