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Geek loves to praise his tools and pulled assumptions over thin air for everything else.

vim/emacs are nice (I'm a vim user) but gosh... have you ever tried the latest JetBrains offering? PyCharm? RubyMine? the JS editor.

The only reason I'm using VIM is because I'm just that _weird_. My dream setup would be a 11"/13" laptop with nothing other than a console and a web browser. If IDEs can fit that screen (which they can't right now...) I would dump vim in an instant and never look back.




That IS my setup at work. I've recently discovered mutt and irssi which I use for email and chat, respectively. All development happens in tmux sessions with vim. My dock contains finder, iterm2, chrome and the trashcan. If I could remove finder and the trashcan I would...

On a slightly related topic, I've started investigating writing a console based email client recently in Python using Urwid for curses stuff that's a little less archaic than mutt.




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