> I still would recommend something else for all the stuff I work with.
I sometimes do to. In particular, when that stuff is Java or C# - it's hard to beat the support IDEs gives you there. So I personally opt to switching said IDEs to Emacs keybindings instead.
(Also, one could argue that you need IDEs there mostly as crutches to support the weak language, but that's a topic for another day...)
> better off spending time learning an ide, esp refactoring, efficient search/ replace as well as how to enable block selection.
Refactoring - if you mean semantic transformations supported by your IDE, then yes. See above. But for search/replace and block selection no IDE beats the convenience of Vim and Emacs. They simply can do that better and more naturally (along with plethora of similar things helping with selection and navigation). And this is exactly the type of thing I was talking about in my previous comments - you can learn both under one Pomodoro if you focus solely on it, and then normal work will quickly take you to proficiency.
I sometimes do to. In particular, when that stuff is Java or C# - it's hard to beat the support IDEs gives you there. So I personally opt to switching said IDEs to Emacs keybindings instead.
(Also, one could argue that you need IDEs there mostly as crutches to support the weak language, but that's a topic for another day...)
> better off spending time learning an ide, esp refactoring, efficient search/ replace as well as how to enable block selection.
Refactoring - if you mean semantic transformations supported by your IDE, then yes. See above. But for search/replace and block selection no IDE beats the convenience of Vim and Emacs. They simply can do that better and more naturally (along with plethora of similar things helping with selection and navigation). And this is exactly the type of thing I was talking about in my previous comments - you can learn both under one Pomodoro if you focus solely on it, and then normal work will quickly take you to proficiency.