You seem to think GUI tools are somehow inferior to text based tools. I wonder how many people would still vouch for Vim if they spent as much time learning a

You seem to think GUI tools are somehow inferior to text based tools. I wonder how many people would still vouch for Vim if they spent as much time learning a modern editor as Vim. But frankly, I don't think it's possible to spend as much time configuring any other editor as much as Vim, since most editors can do out of the box what hundreds of lines of .vimrc can't accomplish.