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Happy to see others mentioning eclipse. I'm learning emacs now and it impresses me a lot but I also have happy memories from both Eclipse and NetBeans.

The way you can refactor whole projects at once etc is amazing. (This is partly related to Java being static and uncool as well. : )

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The beauty of learning emacs keybindings is that most IDE's will have an "emacs mode". So you don't have to relearn things.

But it's also useful for things like bash or OSX interfaces too, since they use the same common keybinding scheme.

This.

The emacs keybinding are used a lot of places eg: ^a to begining of line ^e to end of line is used everywhere (even the url bar of firefox/ chrome).

Sir, there is nothing uncool about static typing. :)

(verbose typing is uncool, though)

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