I think it's not a dilemma at all because the two goals are not even mutually exclusive: - You want to spend 100% of your coding time in the editor - You want

I think it's not a dilemma at all because the two goals are not even mutually exclusive: - You want to spend 100% of your coding time in the editor - You want your coding time to make up as little as possible (ideally 0%) of your total work time Given that, the perfect code editor is obviously one that makes coding so easy and quick that it hardly takes any time and one that you do not have to leave for external information whenever you do use it.