On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Oleg Kobchenko wrote: > Some IDEs are not productive enough, J PM is among them. My tool of choice > for complex projects is often Total Commander with highly intuitive > keyboard commands or well-designed mouse interactions. I miss it thoroughly on > Linux and Mac. It is a sophisticated two-panel file browser, has command line, > built-in (de-)acrhiver, extensible file systems, such as archives, FTP, > ISO disks, even web sites, visual folder sync and file diff, separate > shortcuts > for View, Edit, Run selected item; Explorer extensions like SVN and context > menu > work the same way. I use it for more complex stuff like syncing versions, > archiving, SVN, shell scripts etc. So in comparison with Total Commander, > some IDEs can be slower rather than faster.
Actually my current workflow is similar to you. I use vifm (another dual panel file manager) and vim to browse and edit j scripts. At the same time I run J PM in another terminal. Once I finish editing, I switch to J PM to load, test and debug. Then switch back to vim to further editing and so on. Our difference, I suppose, is that you wrote a script to automate loading and running, while I use PM for that purpose. Did you ever try midnight commander (mc), the linux equivalent for total commander? Though I'm not sure if it has a version for Mac. -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
