On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:25:36 -0500, Andrew Overholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What kind of changes to > existing aspects of Eclipse would make things easier for you?
I've only ever used Eclipse on Windows to date, but my day job involves working in Visual Studio .NET and there are two things that bother me every time I'm forced to use Eclipse. These are showstoppers for me, although I expect they'd be hard to fix at a Red Hat level (they seem pretty fundamental architectural issues rather than superficial feature additions). The first is the couple-of-second delay before the autocomplete dropdown appears. In VS.NET this is instantaneous (it's visible by the time your finger lifts up from the "." key) and the difference in usability and productivity is *very* noticeable. VS.NET's instantaneous autocomplete dropdown makes it a useful tool for learning an API or refreshing your memory on something you aren't sure of the name of (you don't appreciate how useful this actually is until you get used to working in an environment that does it); in Eclipse the delay makes this far too painful to do on a regular basis - for me, at least. The second is Eclipse's annoying habit of inserting close-parens and close-braces automatically. The behavior of these runs so counter to ordinary intuition that I constantly end up with extra or missing parens because I intuitively go to re-type them. Obviously some effort was made to ignore manually-typed close parens when you're in front of one of the automatically added ones, but whatever heuristic is used is wrong enough of the time to be very painful. I know these are hard to fix, but hey, you asked ;) Stuart. -- http://sab39.dev.netreach.com/ _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
