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by yekim 3473 days ago
No, it's not worth it. Modern IDEs make so many things easier than vi / vim / emacs ever did.

vi / vim / emacs can be useful in certain situations (Unix / Cygwin command lines, low level embedded systems that don't have a desktop, etc), but for most code, the modern IDE GUIs blow them away. Code navigation / inspection / contextual browsing is much, much better, easier, and far more productive using Eclipse, CLion, Visual Studio, etc.