I should have said console based vs graphically based. I just can't use something that doesn't even use the pointer. :/

Or with Allegro, right?

Yep, that's a very good reason for learning and using it. Few years back^[1] I've decided that I want to get into Linux and I have installed it as my primary OS. Few weeks ago I have wiped my Windows dual boot partition from a laptop clean. So, yes, I know what the immersion with the software can do.

Unfortunatelly, three things are keeping me from vim. For one it's a terminal program (nope, I don't like gvim, though there's hardly any difference between the two). Second, it isn't able to manage my projects, I'd rather offload this mundane task to the IDE. Same for debugging purposes, gdb's interface is too lowlevel for my tastes. The last thing that really bugs me is the bazillion of keyboard shortcuts that aren't always intuitive and easy to remember (sure by practice you get to know lots of them)^[2].

Use QT Creator, even if you are not developing QT. It has really good code completion. You can load projects directly from a CMake file, it supports the major compilers (MSVC, GCC, clang), it is fast, it runs stable.

Or you could use Vim with NERDTree, and some syntax completion, there are various options. Vim is the best choice if you are willing to invest some time and write your own scripts and macros. Even if I'm using Visual Studio, I resort to Vim sometimes. I think it's a joke that the standard search, or search/replace box in most IDEs does not allow regular expressions.

What torhu said. Been using regex for search and replacements almost since I started using visual studio.

Sed does global/replace fine.

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