[gravypod]

Let me augment that with this: I would love to donate to a project that uses ${INSERT_TERMINAL_TEXT_EDITOR} and turns it into a general IDE.

I'm talking the full shebang.

   * Autocomplete/Autoimporting (Static Analysis backed by compiler output)
   * Formatting
   * Linting
   * Fast or able to run over a slow SSH connection. 
   * Default error resolutions (if test() throws an exception generate a try { })
   * Global refactoring
   * The idea of a project (Creating, building, export/importing, libraries, dependencies)
   * Automatically generated & maintained building system at the click of a run button
   * Documentation at a single click or on hover if possible
   * Integrated console for running a project
   * File and source manager that should be easy to use
   * Binding profiles for Eclipse, NetBeans, JetBrains, VS20XX, ReSharper

Optionally these would be nice:

   * Formal Method Verification? 
   * Coloring/styling of the entire TUI
   * Simple to interact with menus
   * Rust, Go, JavaScript (Browser & Node), Java, Scala, C, C++, PHP, Python support 
   * Pluggable language support that allows the plugin to provide static analysis & compiler data

If that can all be provided that could easily sell for $25 to $50 per user and I'd be happy, happy!, to pay every last dollar of it. It'll never happen. The world will never be that kind to software developers.

[base698]

I have almost all of this in both emacs and vim and it only took me 5 years to get it just right.

[Asooka]

Can you elaborate on how you handle the project thing? I really miss having the concept of "solution" and "project" in Vim from VS. Not just to have my files grouped logically in a $Project/{source,include}/blah.{h,cpp} tree, but also to be able to apply per-project settings like clang-complete options, etc. Right now I don't see a way to have e.g. three different projects that all build from the same files, but use different build options (mainly third-party sdk versions) and thus should give me different completions and code navigation.

[base698]

Part of why I switched to emacs was something called helm: https://tuhdo.github.io/helm-intro.html It fuzzy matches almost anything: files, function names, or commands

Project grouping in the traditional sense can be done with projectile and NeoTree. http://projectile.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://github.com/jaypei/emacs-neotree/blob/dev/README.md

I think what you are describing in the second half can be handled with company mode and triggering a major/minor mode off a file extension. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ma...

http://company-mode.github.io

If that's not it it's possible Googling will find exactly what you describe. People tend to port anything useful from any editor to emacs.

[Ar-Curunir]

There's been "distros" of popular editors like Emacs and Vim aiming to provide this functionality. Spacemacs is one, and there's another one for Vim.

[tebeka]

I heard good things about http://vim.spf13.com/