Comment by cullumsmith

vim with zenburn theme. grep/find when I need to look for something.

I've been programming professionally for about a decade, and the basic Unix tools have always "just worked." They're available everywhere, my dotfiles are easily portable, and there's no licensing or procurement to worry about with corporate beancounters.

I'm sure I'm giving up some marginal level of efficiency, but I've watched so many fads come and go that I'm OK with the tradeoffs of "old reliable."