[RANT ON] I've been using CF Eclipse steady for about a week and on and off for about a year. I do not like it. I've been using HomeSite/CF Studio since HomeSite 1.5 (1996) when Nick was writing it in Delphi from his home. I blame Macromedia for killing HomeSite. They had a "Dream"weaver and thought the world of real programmers would rush to their door steps. NOT!
CF Eclipse lacks many of the basic features and extensibility of HS/CFS. It lacks in usability and accessibility. In HS/CFS anyone can map anything that can be done with the mouse to be done via the keyboard. CF Eclipse can not do this. HS/CFS Snippets can be mapped to shortcut keys also. Now snippets are restricted to the ctr-j function only. Also with snippets I could select code then have my snippet inset wrapped around my code. So far I can not find a way to do that in CFEclipse. In HS/CFS I can select a block of code and use ctrl+shift+> or ctrl+shift+< to indent or un-indent the entire block of code. Now if I have to change indenting I have to go one line at a time. In the Allaire days (I was a member of Team Allaire) we went through a development phase where the usability and accessibility functionality had to be added in and then standardized to meet up with standard keyboard actions. CF Eclipse fails on standard keyboard short cuts also. It uses some of it own actions for what should be standard keyboard short cuts for other actions. Eclipse and CFEclipse need to face this same scrutiny. Then as you point out there is the memory usage. The foot print makes most any Microsoft product look lean and efficient. Even Firefox's memory usage pales in comparison to Eclipse/CFEclipse. HS/CFS uses 14Mb of memory on my machine. I've seen CFEclipse eclipse the 200mb mark. Overall CF Eclipse has slowed me down and forces me to use my trackball more. Too much mousing and trackball usage flares up my tendinitis and puts me in great pain. Keyboarding is much better for me and many others which is why usability and accessibility standards exist in the first place. [RANT OFF] Feel free to prove me wrong by showing me how to do any of the things I mentioned. I look forward to that. Thank You, Wil Genovese (The Juggler) One man with courage makes a majority. -Andrew Jackson A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJR Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:282125 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
