GUI based IDEs are flexible and have large communities too! > Yes. You're looking for Cedet. Can your IDE read my mail? Yes. At least, it can read my mail. For

GUI based IDEs are flexible and have large communities too! > Yes. You're looking for Cedet. Can your IDE read my mail? Yes. At least, it can read my mail. For yours I'd have to know more info. :) > Can your IDE integrate with your calendar? Yes. > Can your IDE email who created the error using version control information? I don't know. But I'll give it a qualified yes bes cause this is generally handled by the build script, which is IDE-agnostic. > How's emacs' refactoring support? Judging by the following stackoverflow post Stackoverflow gives retarded answers sometimes. The next best suggestion on that page is correct. Cedet is great. > How's Emacs' keyword completion? It's fine. You can complete symbols sensitively, and complete filenames or email addresses from anywhere. Having multiple completion systems is very useful. How's your IDE's ability to complete those things? I don't see anything, so perhaps they don't exist. But this is silly. We're developers. Using IDEs designed to be extensible. There is very little we couldn't do if we wanted to. Emacs has been around forever, and it has tons of stuff available for it. It also favors a different working style than something more GUI-based, which some prefer and some don't. There are tons of great tools out there. It's a great time to be a developer. > Even if you can get Vim or Emacs to do some of the above, it usually isn't as easy to use or as useful as an IDE. You don't need to be so hostile. Emacs does these things just fine, and has for a long time. Emacs also does my time tracking, outlining, and email. Your IDE won't do any of those things, and you don't expect it to because you think those tasks are best left to other parts of your operating system. The thing you're missing is that for Emacs users, Emacs is the operating system. I dual boot into Firefox sometimes.