Comment by brabel

> And I've found that trying to use IDEs and other tools doesn't make me more efficient, it just slows me down.

I am sorry to insist on this, but you're clearly mistaken: it's literally impossible for your grep workflow to be faster than hitting `Cmd+b` (IntelliJ MacOS shortcut to go to definition if you're on a symbol, or to see usages if you're on a definition).

> when I try to use tab completion

You don't use tab-completion even on the terminal?

> and popups and tab-complete break that flow for me.

It's very easy to turn off popups and make auto-complete only show up when you explicitly request it. In fact, that's the first thing I do on my IDEs. I highly recommend spending some time changing the IDE settings so that you're happy with how much "automatic" stuff it does. The amount of help an IDE gives is just immeasurable. I do sometimes have to write code without one and it feels like walking on glass. Even running a particular test, for example, is difficult, while in the IDE you just, again, hit a shortcut while your cursor is on the test. I know approximately how to do that from the terminal, but ffs that's useless knowledge to have when I just don't have to write code without an IDE at all, and using the terminal would take minutes (even if you're super fluent in it, as you're forced to come up with a regex for the particular test you want to run or just type the entire name, without assistance) rather than a fraction of a second, while distracting me from what I was even trying to do. This is one example, I could give hundreds more.