Thank you for the warning, but this is a company-leased laptop. As in, this is not really my personal machine. This is still their machine (I can assure you that there is no way I would ever want to work on a laptop with a 1366x768 display and only 4 gigs of ram... it's a terrible workstation). I am also not a contractor, but an actual "manager"... so I do not think this should be violating anything. I have actually worked like this on a screen sharing program with multiple employees and none of them have raised any issues despite being many times my senior. Of course they simply might not know anything about said policies. I think the line would be drawn at me actually putting production code up on here, though.

I've tried out a few other IDEs, and this one is simply the one I like the most. If I could just figure out this issue, I'd be quite happy. I have to use vi to edit files occasionally and it's simply not my thing. I can do it, but I just don't think that way.