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On text editors -- picking up Emacs was one of the hardest thing I ever did, as I had to learn new shortcuts, I had to learn to rely on the keyboard-only and I also had to learn some ELisp just to be able to configure it. Because Emacs has some problems (it is hard to create new syntax-highlighting definitions, plugins break all the time, ELPA for package management is useless), I did try both Textmate and Sublime Te…
I am comfortable in Emacs and quite good with vim. Both do get in my way, which is why I moved to Sublime Text for text editing. I don't live in my text editor. I spend most of my time in IntelliJ or Visual Studio. The conventions of normal text editors are largely established, and so something that runs counter to those normal conventions--an emacs or a vim-- do get in my way. It is a mental gearshift to go "oh, I n…
I spend most of my time in IntelliJ or Visual Studio.
It's understandable then why you don't like Vim/Emacs. Yes, working with IntelliJ/Eclipse/Visual Studio is painful for me too.True anecdote - whenever I'm working with Eclipse, I have a shortcut that opens the current file in Emacs for me.
Vim and emacs are nonstandard at their own peril
I spend my time with Unix-related tools mostly, and Emacs/Vim shortcuts are not as nonstandard as you think. The Bash shell for instance uses Emacs shortcuts. In fact, all shells (like irb or ipython) powered by Readline also use Emacs shortcuts. That you don't "get" how I can stand it is OK;
the important thing is that I can.
Don't take it as a criticism on yourself; I said that mostly because I'm pretty annoyed with Textmate - it does some things really well but other (IMHO important) features are totally retarded.