| "I want to see developers who are experts in IDea, emacs, vim, etc. face off..." What makes you think they're mutually exclusive? For years I've ran Emacs and IntelliJ IDEA both configured to "synch files on change (on disk)" so that I could be synched between Emacs and IDEA. Both were (and still are) always open simultaneously. Now in Eclipse you can use eclim which either turns Eclipse in server-mode or which allos to use vim as the text editor right in the middle of Eclipse. There's also emacs-eclim: it's not as advanced but it has the merit to show that there's hope and light at the end of the tunnel. Thing is: anyone efficient enough with vim/Emacs shall never find the "text editor" part of any idea to come anywhere close to vim/Emacs. I need to remotely debug code? One shortcut and I'm under IntelliJ IDEA. I need to efficiently edit files containting text, like source code files, one shortcut and I'm under Emacs... I hope one day people writing IDEs will realize that no-one has ever written an IDE with a "text editor" that could match vim/Emacs and hence decide, from the start, to make the text editor pluggable. |