Interesting! At some point I have started creating small shell functions to switch between environments (setting the correct paths, etc.). This was when I was m

Interesting! At some point I have started creating small shell functions to switch between environments (setting the correct paths, etc.). This was when I was mainly doing C, C++, and Prolog work. In my last two positions I primarily work on mavenized Java projects and find that IntelliJ projects provide most of the context switching. The upside is that it is far less work to set up and customise projects than vim/emacs plus shell. The downside is that the customisation that you can do is far more limited. I'd love to hear experiences from someone who works on Python or Ruby code, and tried both PyCharm/RubyMine vs. vim/emacs/tmux.