On Monday 20 October 2008 14:19:40 Kuba Ober wrote: > what do you guys use for your development environment?
I use Emacs but I hate it. > What would be the minimal set of functionality that would make you happy for > an IDE? . Written in OCaml using OCaml's own lexer and parser to save effort and make it possible for others to help develop it without losing their hair. . A proper GUI (where options can be set using the mouse). . Mainstream key bindings, e.g. CTRL+S for save. . Jump to definition. . Graphical throwback of the type of the subexpression under the mouse pointer or in the current selection. . Graphical throwback of the documentation related to what is under the mouse pointer. . Graphical throwback of errors and, in the case of type errors, optional highlighting of previous unification points. . Refactoring, e.g. changing the name of a definition in all occurrences. . Autocompletion that handles structural types in LablGTK code and operators, i.e. when the user types "+" present options for int "+", float "+.", num "+/" and any other operators that begin with "+". . Represent an OCaml project as a tree of modules that happen to have the first level stored as files. . Performant enough to handle projects with hundreds of thousands of lines of code. . Parallel so seven of my cores aren't idle while I'm waiting. . The ability to hide the tail of +., +/ etc. operators to make numerical code more readable. > What are killer features you dream of? Only one: an interactive top-level where output is presented via graphical elements (e.g. a scene graph) and is no longer limited to just ASCII text. This would give OCaml the graphical capabilities of Mathematica's awesome "notebook" front-end. -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
