Argumentation note: claiming you have an unpopular opinion and then leaping to call people trolls so you can refuse to engage them is pretty poor form. Of cour

Argumentation note: claiming you have an unpopular opinion and then leaping to call people trolls so you can refuse to engage them is pretty poor form. Of course I see a difference, but it's a difference of degree, not kind. I should clarify that by "text editor" I mean something above the level of ed or nano (though I'm happy to make a similar argument for these too): language-aware features in vim or Emacs such as auto-indenting, syntax highlighting and ctags support are not "transferable across languages" unless someone does the work to implement them: witness Emacs's lack of C++11 support. Expecting e.g. auto-completion to work cross-language in vim but claiming that debugging in Eclipse in inherently language specific flies in the face both of experience (I personally have used debuggers in Eclipse for Python, Scala, and Java, and I know others exist) and also common sense; both are fully extensible via code, and while Eclipse's support for Java is better than the other languages, it's not tied to it in the way that e.g. the Python REPL is tied to Python. I think you'll find that Emacs's support for various languages differs in quality too.