Master grep. Searching is not perfect, but it's a trick that gets your petty close to any IDE feature. Find refs, go-to def. Even completion becomes possible vi

Master grep. Searching is not perfect, but it's a trick that gets your petty close to any IDE feature. Find refs, go-to def. Even completion becomes possible via searches. Search to open the class/struct... boom now you can use dumb textual completions on the members. Master your debugger. GDB? learn to use it. You are set for life and can work on any language, anywhere, any time. Everyone wants a ready-made IDE, and it's great when it works out that way for your current dev environment. But it won't work for all languages, or for all project set ups.