[martinced]

Most non-vim / non-Emacs users are actually doing post-fact rationalization: you never hear, say "Text editor Blub is faster to edit text than Emacs/vim". What you hear them say is "You don't need to edit text fast, most type spend coding isn't spend typing but thinking".

That is 101 post-fact rationalization: they try to justify the fact that they fully know their editor isn't faster to edit text by explaining that no one should care about the speed it takes to edit text.

This is silly beyond imagination. In a way I'm glad such people aren't part of the vim / Emacs community because you can't really have a meaningful discussion with these people: they're trying to shift the topic.

Appeal to authority: I suggest reading Paul Graham's "Beating the averages" and "Being Popular".

Then come back arguing but please cut the post-fact rationalization dishonesty.

FWIW I'm using IntelliJ IDEA since version 4 or so (bought version 12 during doomsday 75% off but didn't even install it yet)... Yet I spent nearly all my coding time inside Emacs.

As soon as you start to write Lisp / elisp to adapt Emacs to your workflow (and not the other way round), a whole new world opens to you.

Yup. Mainly a Java dev here and I haven't even yet installed IntelliJ 12 seen that I'm always under Emacs. I figure out that during some crazy refactoring session IntellIJ may come handy due to Java / Visual Blub's extreme verbosity and redundancy and countless lines of unnecessary code that can be generated automatically (really highlighting one of the many Blub flaws)... But I prefer to code.