Comment by deepanchor

Eh, as a non-IDE user myself, I think you’re being a bit harsh as I don’t think that was the spirit of the author’s comment at all. In fact I found it to ring quite true and if there was any name-calling, I certainly did not feel offended. The fact is there is a certain luddite-esque aesthetic to working in a simple modal editor like Vim (or Emacs in your case) and everyone invents their own dogma to follow, to a certain extent. I happen to find that there is merit in using simple tools, and latent benefits like really getting to know a code-base in a way that predictive fuzzy autocompletion will not allow me to do. There is no global optima when it comes to people’s workflows, just individuals finding what works best for them.