[jimminy]

Like I said, it's been a few years, and the project I was working on was a smaller project, ~1000 lines of code.

I try to minimize imports, and am not touching them often. I'm very considerate of what I'm adding to a codebase, so I don't mind the extra space in my head. Also keep reference docs for the language and libraries on hand or accessible, to alleviate some of the need.

And I consider frequent renaming to be a sign that I hadn't thought out the problem well enough before starting. When I see a true need, I use Multifile Find (& Replace) in Sublime, multi-step process for audit followed by action.

And I've always found auto-complete's to be more frustrating that a saver of time, especially those that would fire on whitespace, so disable them or put them under a secondary keymap.

I'm sure the IDE saves some time, for many, but all the reasons people use them are mostly annoyances to me. Though there are still some merit, like having an embedded debugger and intelligent index of signatures.