While I agree with the main points of the post, I'd like to defend learning proper tools. Even if a good text editor like vi won't make you a great programmer,

While I agree with the main points of the post, I'd like to defend learning proper tools. Even if a good text editor like vi won't make you a great programmer, it most definately will make you a better programmer! First, you'll be more effective and thus achieve more. You can squeeze more refactoring and trying out different things when you are more efficient. This could lead you becoming great at some point. Second, it's about your mindset. Programming is about automatizing and a great programmer should aim for the highest achievable level of automation. Why should your tooling be left out of the equation? With proper tools you can automate more. If a developer has more then 1 year active developing to do, learning e.g. a good editor will pay off.