[ojiikun]

100% vim in a terminal (with gnu screen, naturally). it tends to be installed on just about every machine I am called upon to admin or work on. I even do day to day development in a term window because I like that when I shell into a server at 3am to fix something, it feels The Same As Always. I keep a fairly complex vimrc up on a public repo so I can have my config anywhere at a moment's notice.

I think I only chose vi over emacs (those were the only real options when I learned) purely because I couldn't figure out where the 'meta' key was. first big breakthrough was getting really good at jumping around files without a mouse. second big breakthrough was mastering multi window mode and keeping lots of buffers open like an IDE.

it might just be junk psychology, but I hate every IDE I have tried in 20 years because I can't tolerate the non-instant startup or the code not getting 100% of screen real estate.