[sigzero]

There isn't anything better than Vim or Emacs. Sorry.

[angersock]

For text editing, sure.

For an IDE for, say, C/C++, Visual Studio beats it soundly. For Java, Eclipse.

All that said, these tools are quite useful despite being old--I don't mean anything pointing out their age other than that a somewhat old laptop is probably still quite sufficient.

[brianpgordon]

Eclipse? Surely you mean IntelliJ IDEA.