"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote in message news:mailman.1262.1322866645.24802.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > > It's more a question of functionality. I cannot acceptibly jump to > declarations in vim _period_. Stuff like ctags and cscope absolutely suck > in > comparison to a decent IDE, and AFAIK that's all vim really has for > enabling > the ability to do stuff like jump to declarations. I don't know if emacs > uses > the same underlying programs or whether it does it on its own, so I don't > know > how it compares. I'd gladly be hopping to declarations using vim with > whatever > shortcut it is if it could actually do it right, but ctags just isn't > smart > enough to do it accurately based on function overloading and the like, and > I > have to constantly worry about updating it, making sure that the vim > instance > that I'm using points to the right ctags file, etc. It just isn't > acceptable > IMHO, so I don't bother with it, but vim's other benefits outweigh the > overall > benefits of the IDE for me, so I still use vim. > > In any case, what I listed were just examples of what a good IDE can do. > There's plenty of other stuff that you'd probably miss if you had been > heavily > using them in an IDE before. But I can completely understand thinking that > a > solid text editor is overall better than an IDE, since I use vim for > precisely > that reason. >
I think the line between IDE and text editor is really blurring these days. Things like Eclipse and VS.NET are clearly IDE's yea, but then there's a lot of stuff like Programmer's Notepad 2, Code::Blocks, etc, that are not quite as fully-featured as Eclipse/VS, but yet they're much more like lightweight IDEs than text editors per se.
