Become Shell Literate
Someone should write "become IDE literate" as a response to opening of using vim with no extensions and using grep a lot.<p>I've been using editors that are language aware since at least the late 90s. Depending on the language they'll show me all references, take me to the definition or declaration, stack those jumps so as I follow the links I can pop back a level to where I was. All of this is instant. 1000x faster than opening a shell and trying to grep all the project files for word phrases which, not being language aware, can't tell if one 'foo' is relevant or irrelevant from another 'foo'. They'll also let me refactor various things from renaming a method/class/variable/function and correctly fixing all the related files to doing things like changing class members to getter/setters and other things.<p>The difference is like using a hammer vs using a nail gun. There are times where they hammer is useful but given the job of constructing a building a nail gun will get the job done much faster.