What do people here use as an IDE?

sybrandy sybrandy at gmail.com
Wed Oct 13 16:59:23 PDT 2010


On 10/13/2010 07:43 PM, retard wrote:
> Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:24:12 -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, October 13, 2010 16:06:18 sybrandy wrote:
>>> On 10/12/2010 09:57 PM, Michael Stover wrote:
>>>> Elephant appears dead.  Poseidon's activity is extremely low and is
>>>> still alpha after 5 years. LEDS is even less active, and DDT doesn't
>>>> have a release yet.  What do actual D programmers use?
>>>>
>>>> -Mike
>>>
>>> I stick with Vim.  Who needs anything else? :P
>>>
>>> Casey
>>
>> Proper code completion, correctly jumping to function definitions, and
>> various other features that IDEs generally do well tend to be quite poor
>> in vim. It can do many of them on some level, but for instance, while
>> ctags does give you the ability to jump to function declarations, it
>> does quite poorly in the face of identical variable names across files.
>> There are a number of IDE features that I would love to have and use but
>> vim can't properly pull off. When I have a decent IDE, I'm always torn
>> on whether to use vim or the IDE. vim (well, gvim) generally wins out,
>> but sometimes the extra abilities of the IDE are just too useful. What
>> I'd really like is full-featured IDE with complete and completely
>> remappable vim bindings.
>
I said that somewhat jokingly as I know that there are a ton of features 
that IDEs do provide.  I just really hate them because they tend to be 
bloated and I tend to type faster than the autocomplete.  Also, when 
working with a laptop or Linux command line from time to time, it's good 
to not have to rely on a mouse or software that needs to be installed.

> I found this with a bit of googling: http://eclim.org/

I hated eclim.  I found Vrapper to be much nicer as it just gave me most 
of Vim without doing things in a strange manner.

http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/

Casey


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