Emacs and vim (at least mine) did report that there is an issue with the file as well but you were allowed to edit the file at least. It's only Eclipse that seems to think that the user is stupid and thus it's required to take extra care ;)
Jacek Laskowski wrote:
If I had only known it! Before Dave changed it I had the some changes for it to commit at that time when the issue was reported, but didn't consider them as the fixes. Dave eventually beat me to it. IDEA reported them as errors so they were easily to spot. Jacek
