My trick (not really a trick) for efficiency is some simple key bindings to navigate between windows in Screen.
And if I really need power I'll run tabs inside of individual Vim instances within each Screen window.
I really think IDE dependence is one of the things that can prevent agility within a team. As soon as you introduce a product into your stack that a person's IDE doesn't have deep integration with, or doesn't play nicely with, all that productivity that person gained by learning that IDE is all of a sudden gone.
The best programmers I work with use emacs or vim and are good enough to keep up even though most others use intelliJ ides, but it is a handicap, they are just good enough to overcome it. I have no doubt they would be even better in a good IDE.
Do you really think the best programmers spend enough time refactoring for the use of an IDE to help?
> Is refactoring a bad thing now?
It isn't, he just intended that the best programmers refactor less (since they are the best they must get things right or better predict the future more often then the others).
And yes I know those I work with do, because we work on the same codebase and I see their commits.
But then, that's probably why those IDEs ship with sophisticated debuggers, right? ☺
They design it well the first time. They refactor is to a better design as needed as new requirements arise.
Someone not getting their job done is a problem. Someone using vim as their editor is not. I could understand giving that feedback ("try an IDE") but telling them their job is contingent on it is probably missing the point.
Most of the people I work with seem to use vim/emacs, and it doesn't appear to be for "machismo" reasons. It's likely just what they're used to.