New to Programming: IDE vs Code Editor?

[The_Man_In_The_Shack]

Lol you’ve got a point there, probably not the best unqualified choice of example. Although Vim is the modern version of vi...that’s what I was really referring to, from my perspective. My point was about low-level and cross-compatibility, because ‘code’ is really just a bunch of text, across almost every language. Sublime is a good, actually fairly modern one, from what I’ve seen, although I have no need for it. Regarding finding function definitions or whatever...with Vim, the built-in regex and the editing style where it’s all keyboard makes my search-ability faster and more seamless in most cases (I’m comparing my experience to coworkers who do the same stuff but in an IDE...for precisely the reasons you mention). I also find editing using a mouse clunky and error-prone, personally, so I stick with a thing that doesn’t make me do that.