rahmu wroteI'm practicing coding without IDE. It might not be the best move productivity-wise, but it sure helps you better understand the underlying actions of the program.
For example I would've never known what's a C linker if I hadn't tried the command line. But yeah, overall IDEs are helpful, especially in web application designs.
That's great, I spent well over 5 years (1996~2001) using vi and nothing else, though at a certain point you are bound to move on.
My system is always fully equipped with the following:
1- cygwin with my custom vi configuration (py/perl/shell scripts)
2- Visual Studio with my own snippets, templates, shortcuts and theme. (mostly work)
3- Eclipse (JBoss Tools) (on demand lib creation)
4- E-TextEditor (Pretty much everything else)