Let's give a honor to dead giants!

[Timon Gehr]

On 04/20/2012 05:34 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 05:15:36AM +0200, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
>> On 20/04/12 04:51, Ary Manzana wrote:
>>> * Eclispe is great for writing IDEs but after programming in Ruby for
>>> some years now and exclusively using vim I can't go back to using a
>>> slow IDE so I don't think I'll ever write anything else for Eclipse.
>>
>> vim actually seems like a great development environment for D -- it
>> was the first I could set up to really meet my preferences (I'm sure
>> Emacs is also great, but I never got my head round it sufficiently).
>> The caveat being that my concept of IDE is "glorified text editor that
>> has really nice handling of syntax highlighting and auto-indentation
>> and in particular supports smart tab indentation with tabs for indent,
>> spaces for alignment".
>
> I use vim, and would not touch an IDE with a 20-foot sterilized pole.
> Vim has decent auto-indentation, and quite configurable in what it does
> with tabs (expandtab, noexpandtab, tabstop, shiftwidth, etc.). I'm sure
> if somebody's willing to invest the time, you can do D autocompletion in
> vim too (but I've never felt the need for it).
>
> One thing I miss, though, is ctags support for D. You don't know how
> powerful such a simple concept is; it lets you navigate 50,000-line
> source files without even batting an eyelid.  :-) (Just try that in an
> IDE, and you'll soon get an aneurism from trying to scroll with a
> 1-pixel high scrollbar...)
>
> Vim/Emacs are the ultimate tools for programming IMAO. I mean, you can
> literally *implement* an IDE in Emacs if you're insane enough (heck, you
> can implement an entire OS in emacs if you lisp enough). Who needs
> klunky IDEs when *text editors* are that powerful?? ;-)
>
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More importantly, I have yet to find an IDE that actually supports 
editing text efficiently.