I've seen a few text editor pros who just weren't aware of what modern ides are capable of, particularly with strongly typed languages. They thought grep, regex and keyboard shortcuts were impressive.

There is something that I think most programmers have, which is that seeing someone type an arcane-looking combination of characters, press enter, and suddenly a variable has been renamed in every file in the directory is more impressive then clicking on UI elements to get to find and replace, then clicking the "execute" button.

They both do the same thing, probably take the same amount of type to actually complete, but our brains are wired to see the keyboard-only method as some sort of cyberpunk magic.

Or maybe that's just me!

imo this is exactly it.

It reminds me of pre-iPhone Japanese mobile phone culture where the more complicated interfaces were prized because users had to master them like a game or a puzzle.

Sure, I assume you can, but since Emacs/Vim is a sort of environment that encourages terse keybindings, fast call outs to the shell, etc, that's where I've seen more people that can seem to do stuff almost subconsciously.