Especially since most IDE's seem to go out of their way to make sludge out of the text, unless you have hours to spend training each one, and can figure out how

Especially since most IDE's seem to go out of their way to make sludge out of the text, unless you have hours to spend training each one, and can figure out how to do so... ... until your coworker edits the file in the out of the box IDE and munges it. I guess now-a-days, our languages and frameworks are so ugly they need a "bag" over their [inter]face while you are doing them :-)