> you physically feel how you miss emacs, where anything is a few LoC away
That is my problem with IDEs, in a nutshell. There is the running joke that Emacs is a decent operating system in want of a decent editor. The same can be said - more strongly - about Eclipse or Visual Studio.
Some things these IDEs do spectacularly well, for sure, but when it comes to basic text editing, I keep thinking how easy this or that would be in emacs. ;-|
Same, and I started in the Eclipse fad, with eclipse plugin being a thing, before I knew how to program emacs (beside default config). The day I realize how general lisp was and how dynamic emacs was I had to pause for a minute.
Last winter I had to use Eclipse (for scala), one day of mild use trigger nasty wrist pain (I play music, I'm used to pushing the mechanics, that was more). And people say emacs causes RSI ;)
Also the Eclipse crowd is completely off the user side. It's all about tech. Microsoft might be better, I didn't use VS since ages. IDEA is said to be really great at ergonomics. But rarely someone brings a lot to the table. (the only recent thing I noticed was parinfer, ambitious and useful). Also people underestimate what a elisp can do when used correctly. See yasnippet, of Fuco litable.el.
I don't even remap. I think my hands ended up morphing into an emacs stockholm syndrom. Or maybe music did it before that. Still I was surprised that Eclipse would revive such painful sensations.
That is my problem with IDEs, in a nutshell. There is the running joke that Emacs is a decent operating system in want of a decent editor. The same can be said - more strongly - about Eclipse or Visual Studio.
Some things these IDEs do spectacularly well, for sure, but when it comes to basic text editing, I keep thinking how easy this or that would be in emacs. ;-|