"I think that trying to shoehorn Vim or Emacs into becoming something that it’s not [an IDE] isn’t quite thinking about the problem in the right way." This may

"I think that trying to shoehorn Vim or Emacs into becoming something that it’s not [an IDE] isn’t quite thinking about the problem in the right way." This may or may not be true for Vim, I don't know. But I think the majority of GNU Emacs users would view it as, to a large extent, supplanting the unix shell environment. Stallman notably didn't even use unix until he had written enough of emacs to be able to avoid ed and vi: he edited on another system and transferred the files across the network