Hooray, another tools discussion where nothing gets resolved. Tools are a highly personal topic, what works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another

Hooray, another tools discussion where nothing gets resolved. Tools are a highly personal topic, what works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another. My advice is to try using one and only one new tool a week. By the end of a month you'll have a good idea of what your own preferences are and the relative strengths/weaknesses of others. With editors, that'd probably be a gamut of vim, emacs, Sublime, Eclipse, and Visual Studio Express. If you're a Java developer, IntelliJ is worth looking at. > [...] I’m going to go search for how to do it. I’m probably going to learn something in the process. At year 4 of Vimming. I don't get why this is a bad thing. I've been programming for decades and still learn new stuff every week. It should be noted that vim and emacs definitely appeals more to the maximizer over satisficer personality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice:_Why_More_Is_Less https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice:_Why_Mor...