They always work with minimal configuration for me, and just generally make all of the tedious stuff take less time. Being able to do everything I need to do (building, running tests, debugging, interfacing with a db, HTTP requests, refactoring, static analysis, VCS tasks) in one place just feels good to me. Also, I have yet to see another IDE with something like IntelliJ's Structural Search and Replace.
I use emacs on the command line for brief edits, but I've never managed to find an IDE-esque setup for it that worked well (I've struggled just to have it indent Python the way I want it to).
Emacs, because of Lisp. Vimscript is a bad language, Lua is a decent language, but if you need a editor/language that can be used to modify itself, there is nothing like Lisp.
I used to love vim, but it's just an editor and sometimes I want more. I decided it is worth my time to invest in a tool that has existed for decades and will be around for decades.
The dream honestly is Emacs to be replaced by another modern and streamlined editor, that is still as extensible and lispy as Emacs. The current iteration is weird and idiosyncratic, but the foundations it is built upon are timeless and way ahead than any other programmer's editor.
PHPStorm cause I'm retro cool. I tried VSCode, but it takes more time to set up for PHP and doesn't do some things quite as well. For example, the interface for traversing classes or finding references is a little less refined than in PHPStorm. Perhaps more tricks are available and I could get used to different things, but I have no complaints.
GNU Emacs. While Elisp isn't the greatest of Lisps, I still like it a lot better than JavaScript; and Vi-style modal editing doesn't work for me. Also I like the GNU licenses on a philosophical level.
VSCode, with Vim emulation. I almost never want for Vim stuff that doesn't exist in the Code plugin. I generally am happy with Code's autocomplete and plugin ecosystem.
Coming from a similar background I found that it was super helpful to create my own keybinds for stuff like navigating forward/backward through tabs, toggling the sidebar etc. Before I did that I felt similarly that it was too mouse dependent.
The VSCode Vim extension has a `gh` key sequence for showing the hover info you normally have to use the mouse for that made switching much easier.
would almost beat VSCode, but it's only available on Windows. N++ perfectly fits into how I work, using the keyboard mainly. It supports plugins, is quick even with large files and is highly customisable which makes it (combined with Total Commander) the perfect command center on Windows.
VisualStudio 2013 for mixed C# / Intel C projects with all the JetBrains plugins.
We have old hardware to support. Some of our other projects use a vendor specific release of clang, which I've been able to wire into VSCode, since the vendor IDE is terrible.
The vi(1) and vim(1) but also Geany which is very small/light and very powerful.
I love its block copying/pasting/typing and also that you can 'pass' any block of selected text into external command and it will be pasted back into that file you selected it after being parsed by it.
For example you can send that block of text info sort -n or tr ' ' '\n' command ... or into column -t to make it format well.
This also makes Geany a great editor/IDE for taking notes/documentation etc.
I tried to use ZIM for that but you can not even disable word wrapping so its maybe useful for some 'short' things but it definitely does not work for me and Geany fits beautiful here.
VSCode with the vscode-neovim extension, which uses the full Neovim that's installed on your machine, unlike VSCodeVim which only emulates Vim. You get the best of both worlds this way, one-click editor extensions with the power of Vim.
Eclipse primarily for coding in Java, Python, etc.. When I'm editing in console mode, I use Emacs. Rarely if I'm on a machine without Emacs I might use vim or nano.
Doom Emacs. It's pretty straightforward to get started with out of the box, has good LSP integration, and I don't have to worry about any rug pulling down the road like when Microsoft abandoned their Python LSP server.
Jetbrains IDEs are pretty good, but PyCharm is pretty heavyweight when you've got a bunch of small Python repos, each with their own LSP server going. Maybe it's gotten better in the past few years though.
Emacs is cool, but I prefer VIM because of its leanness (and I'm quite fast with it). Sublime Text when I want that GUI nicety and JetBrains for languages that do require an IDE.
Vim simply gives the best editing experience, and together with the old Vim plugins and the newer Neovim plugins it gives me everything I'd want and more.
> and there's usually always some vi variant on any linux env I've had to use.
This is why I will pretty much always using a vi-like editor. Currently using vim/nvim/Doom Emacs depending on which machine I'm using, but it is _extremely_ helpful to be able to have a common set of keybinds which I can use to at least comfortably edit config files on *nix.
They always work with minimal configuration for me, and just generally make all of the tedious stuff take less time. Being able to do everything I need to do (building, running tests, debugging, interfacing with a db, HTTP requests, refactoring, static analysis, VCS tasks) in one place just feels good to me. Also, I have yet to see another IDE with something like IntelliJ's Structural Search and Replace.
I use emacs on the command line for brief edits, but I've never managed to find an IDE-esque setup for it that worked well (I've struggled just to have it indent Python the way I want it to).