Mostly it depends on where you are coming from. The key is that you'd want to avoid context switches. All my other tools are CLI, so adding an editor in a tmu

Mostly it depends on where you are coming from. The key is that you'd want to avoid context switches. All my other tools are CLI, so adding an editor in a tmux pane rounds everything out. There is no context switch between my editor and my tools. If all my tools were GUI, It would be a cobbled together set of tools with an editor around it. If you were using an IDE suite and It just depends where you start and are going.