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by ellis-bell 2005 days ago
Incidentally one of the biggest benefits I see of using a text editor like vim / emacs is that it really encourages good code management.

It's not to save the ~10 minutes per year in faster key strokes to manipulate your code. It's about the way it shapes your thinking about how you code.

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I agree to some extent.

After using Intellij for about 5 years I switched to a less batteries-included code editor (currently doom emacs). I figure if I need an IDE to navigate our code as a senior developer on the project then less experienced ones don't stand much of a chance.

I still use Intellij for refactoring.