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Discussion on: Vim Is The Perfect IDE

 
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And i was wondering what debuggers are for.
But, anyhow, the example i gave ( 500 loc) was just that, an example. The point was you are not writing lines of code 24/7, even if you want to.
If that seems hard to grasp, let's look at example of yours; if you really need 5 seconds to double click and get back to the keyboard, then you probably never saw that people usually keep their mouse near their keyboards. It takes 1-2 seconds at most, for me.
As for myself, i'm using Vim and i3/awesome as a tiling VM. But i use every tool where it fits. Vim mostly for config files ( nginx, nas things because i'm working with them quite a lot, etc.), bash/python/lua scripts and similar. There Vim really shines, i agree.
But keep in mind that it's also pretty fast (only on local machines, not VMs) to type vcode filename, edit, hit ctrl + s, and ctrl +w/q to close.

I have no intention to argue over 'preferences', but to the fact that there's no one solution to them all. I always assumed that that goes without saying.

As for the original question:
"On the other hand I don't know how to, in any other IDE, for example delete everything inside curly braces, and start editing the method from scratch."

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