So after your first comment I was wondering what GUI gives you as far as tools in an IDE that you couldn't have with curses style terminal-based interface.
Emacs (and vi) do a wide assortment of refactorings, auto-completions, multipaned outputs, large scale cut and pastes etc. I couldn't think of anything that actually needed graphics. Given that i couldn't think of any reason why an IDE needed to be a GUI.
That is to say I can see people preferring the look, or the use of a pointing device, but I couldn't figure out any coding features that where actually GUI-only. You have any I couldn't think of?
Code navigation, able to represent visually references between modules, packages, binary files. Quite handy to navigate across large code bases, typical in enterprise environments.
Another nice feature is the ability to see graphical representations of data structures. Specially handy for list and tree based structures.
Emacs (and vi) do a wide assortment of refactorings, auto-completions, multipaned outputs, large scale cut and pastes etc. I couldn't think of anything that actually needed graphics. Given that i couldn't think of any reason why an IDE needed to be a GUI.
That is to say I can see people preferring the look, or the use of a pointing device, but I couldn't figure out any coding features that where actually GUI-only. You have any I couldn't think of?