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vi(m) is still the best command line editing tool out there. And I used is almost a dozen times everyday.

But the IDE ship sailed long back. Its just that the modern IDE's simply do a lot out of the box that is just not possible to configure quickly, or well enough outside using packages. Most of the times the packages don't work well with each other.

Like the Python's formatter often interferes with vim's modal editing etc.

With AI, this will take it a level further apart.



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