>
> I'm glad that you are working to find a good balance. In my opinion, a
> successful plug in would be one that integrates so well into
> the product that
> you never know it is there (except when you choose it from
> the preferences
> panel the first time and it gets downloaded and installed). One of the
> problems I have with editors I've used in the past (BBEdit
> and JEdit for
> example), is that a lot of the key functionality is in the
> "Plugins" menu and
> not integrated into the program.
>
Yes, you need to be very careful there. Install too many plugins into JEdit and it starts losing it's consistency. That could easily happen with Idea. This means careful thought about how plugins integrate is required.
-- Glen
