while i use intellij, expand selection is available as a plugin for vim. i agree refactoring in a tool like vim is painful. I also prefer integrated tooling l

while i use intellij, expand selection is available as a plugin for vim. i agree refactoring in a tool like vim is painful. I also prefer integrated tooling like merge and git tools - both intellij and eclipse have great examples of these, rather than running 10 commands to replace 1 button click and pretending its the same thing. i suppose my ideal company uses only typesafe languages so you can really ramp up your dev velocity with an ide - scala+scala.js or java+typescript for example. personally I find intellij has better frontend plugins, but i honestly prefer the editing experience in java eclipse - too bad each editor in eclipse is its own experience.