> Why is it that you believe the only reason why a vi/emacs user could believe those environments are faster to edit in is because they don't use IDE's?

Anecdotal, personal experience, including seeing constant outright incorrect claims about graphical IDEs in threads like these.

The claims usually take the form of: "I use vi/emacs because I can do xyz using only the keyboard" - where xyz is something that most IDEs maybe couldn't do 15+ years ago, but which they all can do today.