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The premise is that using proper code navigation functions will increase productivity over grep. Not that using an IDE will increase productivity over vim, assuming you use actual code navigation tools in vim.

As for the click: all IDEs and all code navigation tools for popular text editors like vim or emacs have full keyboard support. And M-. Or F2 or whatever are much quicker to type than "grep function_name".




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