Comment by chikere232

I use auto-indent and syntax highlighting which is sort of an IDE feature, and some other quality of life things like triming trailing whitespace on lines I edit. I also trigger compilation from the editor so I can step through the compilation errors one by one.

I know my editor (emacs) could do some of the more advanced things you mention, but it needs a bit of setup and I'm lazy. It's not really a blocker.

I look at the docs if I'm doing something new to me or have forgotten a function call. I google more complex things which often gets me more useful info than an IDE could give me, unless it's drowned by AI-slop.

If I want to dig around in a codebase I can grep for things, or just open a likely looking file and isearch for the thing.

I do git etc from the commandline, which I could probably do from emacs too but I never really bothered to.

I have nothing against IDEs and have used some at places where it was harder not to because they'd standardised on a common one. I kinda enjoy the simplicity of just having a familiar editor for any language I encounter though.