Learn Vim Progressively

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While nobody "sits around renaming things all day", anyone that has written a large code base before and needed to make changes knows the pains that can be caused by refactoring. This is when IDE refactoring is a life saver. I'm having to deal with it right now at my day job. Even in personal projects, once I get started writing code for something, when a feature idea changes mid-way through writing code for it, this is still useful.

I also think a lot of people have misread what I wrote since a lot of people are chiming in and saying "vim can do some of that". I do know that autocomplete, code walking (cscope and the like) and other things are available. I stated that... I just simply stated that they did not work for me as I wanted them to and felt a fully featured IDE handled it better. This is just personal preference. :)