What scares you the most about the integrated IDE of most modern Smalltalks? [closed]

Question

As I'm riding the wave of resurgence of Smalltalk (especially because many Ruby-on-Rails people are rediscovering Smalltalk and seeing Seaside as their next upgraded web framework), I get questions like "yeah, but how do I use my favorite editor to edit Smalltalk code?" or "Does Smalltalk still insist on living in a world of its own?".

Now, having first experienced Smalltalk back in 1981, I don't understand these questions very well. It seems rather natural that I'd want the editor and debugger to be savvy of my current code state, and integrate with the change control system that is Smalltalk-aware. Using an external editor or debugger or change control manager would seem very awkward.

So what is it that scares you the most about not being able to edit the five-line methods in Smalltalk with your favorite editor, or use your favorite non-Smalltalk-aware change control system?

Answer 1

Everything's different. Want to go to the end of the line? It's not Ctrl-E. Want to jump a few words over, by word? It's not Meta-F....

Text editing is a fundamental programming activity. Messing with those inputs is messing with something deep in my mind.

Edit: and here is someone asking for emacs key bindings on comp.lang.smalltalk in 1987.