What do people here use as an IDE?

"Jérôme M. Berger" jeberger at free.fr
Sat Oct 16 02:50:50 PDT 2010


Russel Winder wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 16:24 -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> [ . . . ]
>> 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.
> 
> Bizarrely the single feature that fails for me in Eclipse, NetBeans and
> IntelliJ IDEA that I find the single most problematic feature in my
> programming life -- which means Emacs remains the one true editor -- is
> formatting comments.  I seemingly cannot survive without the ability to
> reformat the paragraphs of comment blocks to a given width.  Emacs
> handles this trivially in all languages I use for the modes I have.  The
> IDEs seem unable to provide the functionality.  Usually they end up
> reformatting my entire file to some bizarre formatting that is not the
> one set up for the project.  I appreciate that being able to trivially
> create properly formatted comments is probably uniquely my problem
> but . . .
> 
	Same here, no IDE I've seen is able to format code and comments as
well as (X)Emacs.

		Jerome
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