> I find it more time consuming to go through a bunch of menus and GUI windows to find something I'm trying to do vs being able to just run a command or Google for a command and run that instead.

Have you ever even used a modern IDE?

I don't think I've actually clicked on a menu item in IntelliJ like, ever. Not once.

I just press "shift shift" and get the the "search everywhere" dialog which searches everything including menus and customization preferences.

> Have you ever even used a modern IDE?

Yes, I used PyCharm and RubyMine for over a year. The comment I was replying to said he was clicking around menu items to see what's available.

I don't really see a difference between using "search everywhere" vs using something like fzf with Vim (which lets you search through a ton of different things besides files).

But normally in my day to day I'm just hitting key binds or typing short commands without having to search for anything except files to open (which I could do with a sidebar instead, but I prefer fuzzy finding files based on typing out the name most of the time).

The thing is though, you have to know enough to google it in the first place. I'm sure there's a lot of users of VIM that never use certain powerful features because they don't even know they exist; that happens in an IDE too but it's a lot less frequent because a button or a panel is a lot more obvious to go "hey what's that..".

True, but you usually have at least some idea of what you want to do before you start Googling for something.

Vim's help command is also world class. It's just searching it is hard, but fzf.vim makes this easy, so you can literally type 1 word of what you want to learn more about and you'll find all sorts of results.