[collyw]

Easy to use step through debugger is the main reason I use an IDE (Eclipse based because its what I know, and doesn't as far as i am aware lead to lock in). Also I have SQLExplorer plugin for the database. I have been tempted to learn Vim or Emacs but I can't really find a good reason to spend the time learning a load of obscure keyboard commands for everything when my IDE appears to do all of those things.

I would welcome opinions on what I am missing out on going the IDE route.