"People who claim that vim/emacs are the ultimate environment typically have a very narrow world-view in my experience."
That's not what people "typically" claim.
People typically claim that the "text editor" part of NetBeans / Eclipse / IntelliJ IDEA / Visual C# / etc. do s*ck big monkey balls compared to vim / Emacs.
There are even people who go as far as writing client/server mode for IDEs allowing to "plugin" either vim/emacs inside your IDE or to call your IDE's feature from vim/emacs (cue eclim / emacs-eclim ).
That the "text editor" part of the big IDEs are totally inferior and utter crap compared to vim / emacs is not exactly something open up for debate ; )
That's not what people "typically" claim.
People typically claim that the "text editor" part of NetBeans / Eclipse / IntelliJ IDEA / Visual C# / etc. do s*ck big monkey balls compared to vim / Emacs.
There are even people who go as far as writing client/server mode for IDEs allowing to "plugin" either vim/emacs inside your IDE or to call your IDE's feature from vim/emacs (cue eclim / emacs-eclim ).
That the "text editor" part of the big IDEs are totally inferior and utter crap compared to vim / emacs is not exactly something open up for debate ; )