This is the type of tradeoff I have with Emacs vs. an IDE. Certain IDE-like features are good enough for Emacs; it was better with IDEs. However, IDEs were desi

This is the type of tradeoff I have with Emacs vs. an IDE. Certain IDE-like features are good enough for Emacs; it was better with IDEs. However, IDEs were designed for specific purposes. Having the flexibility of the same text editor at the same time is probably more important than possibly faster autocompletion.