It's about trying to find the best trade-off. Certainly automated rename/pull up/inline/extract operations help, but I've found that the navigation and text-edi

It's about trying to find the best trade-off. Certainly automated rename/pull up/inline/extract operations help, but I've found that the navigation and text-editing power of vim outweighs the benefits coming from those IDE operations. Vim is kind of like an IDE in some respects. I like it because it focuses on text editing and doesn't stick its nose into the actual programming decisions where it doesn't belong. If I wanted my editor to interfere with my programming logic then I'd probably take the jump to emacs, where I know it will obey me rather than forcing me to obey it, the latter accurately describing the experiences I've had with Visual Studio. And, like I said, the act of performing the textual refactoring isn't where I spend most of my time anyway. Most of my programming time is spent thinking about how to proceed, placing those thoughts into the context of my program, and translating those thoughts into whatever language I'm using. The more I can speed up those bottlenecks the better.