It depends on what you are used to. I started programming in the 1980s and the first editor I used was pretty much like EDLIN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edl

It depends on what you are used to. I started programming in the 1980s and the first editor I used was pretty much like EDLIN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edlin)---think http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edlin)---think of an unholy cross between the Unix commands cat and vi (line based and modal). And, except for code completion, there isn't anything an IDE can do that can't be done via the command line (just not as conveniently). Then again, I don't program in Java.