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 really did help, and the lack of them in Komodo > made it seem way behind the curve. > > 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. Whether open source plug-ins for Eclipse can bridge the gap, > who knows. (Thanks to Duane Bronson for mentioning that there is a Perl > plug-in for Eclipse. I had been wondering, and asked a few people, but > wasn't aware that it existed.)
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 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 and have the editor skip directly to it's definition - even if it is from another module and had to go find it! -- Sean Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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