While you can indeed transform Emacs/Vim to a good IDE, there are lot of (experienced) people who do not. Anecdotally I have seen quite a lot of posts boasting

While you can indeed transform Emacs/Vim to a good IDE, there are lot of (experienced) people who do not. Anecdotally I have seen quite a lot of posts boasting use of 'vanilla' editors without plugins. Regarding your GDB screenshot, that is certainly good, I would argue though that using pure text (with some images included) is limiting oneself. This being said, I really hope that NeoVim will go far enough and bring good enough integration of Node.js and javascript in general (my current work uses these technologies). So far I have been quite disappointed by stuff like tern[1] [1]: http://ternjs.net http://ternjs.net