On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 12:05 -0500, Stuart Ballard wrote: > 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.
See Windows->Preferences : Java->Editor->Code assist : Auto activation delay > > 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. > See Windows->Preferences : Java->Editor : Typing->Close braces and Close brackets and parenthesis > I know these are hard to fix, but hey, you asked ;) > uffff that was a hard fix... jajaja :-P > Stuart. ________________________________________ Robert Marcano web: http://www.marcanoonline.com/ blog: http://www.marcanoonline.com/plog/ _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
