Re: [Boston.pm] GUI builders, support tools

2005-03-01 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sean, old boy, I'm astounded. Are you not aware that I've been doing exactly this using emacs? Daily? For more than 20 years now? It's called find-tag . . . For the less Emacs-savvy, the speedbar package may be ideal. It shows the functions

Re: [Boston.pm] GUI builders, support tools

2005-03-01 Thread andrew burke
Most long time Perl programmers will scoff at IDEs, but the lack of tools is part of the problem of Perl not being accepted by the corporate IT community. Of course it is also a catch-22. Without a critical mass of users, there isn't a financial incentive for companies to develop such tools.

Re: [Boston.pm] GUI builders, support tools

2005-02-28 Thread Sean Quinlan
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 16:39 -0500, Tom Metro wrote: I was skeptical that such things actually added to one's programming efficiency. My friend wasn't an IDE junkie. He spent plenty of years working on the command line and with text editors. His opinion was that these bits of automation

Re: [Boston.pm] GUI builders, support tools

2005-02-28 Thread Timothy Kohl
After learning Quanta for web development I'm much more interested in looking at improved coding tool for Perl. I've played with Eclipse a little, and intend to get back to it when I have a a couple tuits. I'm not interested in WYSIWYG editors. But here's something you basic text editor

Re: [Boston.pm] GUI builders, support tools

2005-02-28 Thread Darren Chamberlain
* Sean Quinlan sean at quinlan.org [2005/02/28 18:12]: [...] But here's something you basic text editor doesn't give you that I think Eclipse does. Function jumping (or whatever it's called). I'd _LOVE_ to be able to click (or highlight and meta-somthing, whatever) on a function or method call

Re: [Boston.pm] GUI builders, support tools

2005-02-28 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Sean Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:12:00 -0500 After learning Quanta for web development I'm much more interested in looking at improved coding tool for Perl. I've played with Eclipse a little, and intend to get back to it when I have a a couple tuits.

Re: [Boston.pm] GUI builders, support tools

2005-02-28 Thread Mike Burns
--- Sean Quinlan mumbled on 2005-02-28 18.12.00 -0500 --- Function jumping (or whatever it's called). I'd _LOVE_ to be able to click (or highlight and meta-somthing, whatever) on a function or method call and have the editor skip directly to it's definition - even if it is from another module