vim i tried to learn emacs, but it hurt my head. probably just didn't try it long enough
-Kevin On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Robert Boone <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think you are making the assumption that we have never used IDE's. > I used to be a borland language > junkie. I used Turbo Pascal, Turbo C++ and Borland C++ and their respective > IDE's. It's not that I don't > like some of the features of an IDE, but I prefer to setup my environment > differently than most IDE's. I've > been toying with Devel::PerlySense for a few weeks. It has lots of features > that an IDE would have with out > giving up the freedom to change the functionality as the situation changes > or just as I learn more about > programming. > > Who knows, one day someone may write an IDE that works for me. But > so far that hasn't happened. > > :) > > > Robert > > > > > > On Jan 4, 2009, at 6:26 PM, Todd Rinaldo wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Robert Boone <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> As you can tell I don't really care for IDE's, for me they mostly get >>> in the way. I would rather build a working environment in an editor >>> that let me do that in the way I think is best for me. >>> >> >> I've gotta admit I'm surprised how many people feel a lack of interest >> in access to IDEs. I find IDEs help me program/debug faster, as they >> point out errors to me as I commit them, rather than 10+ minutes later >> when I go to run the code. Usually there's little difference between >> fixing the error before or after, but every once in a while, the >> mistake is subtle enough that you end up spending much more time down >> the road trying to figure out what tidbit of the code went wrong. >> >> I wonder... If Emacs/vim came with an IDE, would you use and >> appreciate it more? Both of your choices have their origins as >> terminal editors. As a result, they do not readily lend themselves to >> being an IDE. So I guess my question is whether this an accessibility >> issue or truly it holds no value for you? >> >> Another thing occurs to me, which is we might not have a consistent >> definition of "IDE" here. Most of these apps offer some features of an >> IDE. The major one for me is code analysis, but it occurs to me that >> syntax hilighting, etc. would also be components of an IDE, which >> would make everything but Notepad an IDE :D >> >> Todd >> _______________________________________________ >> Houston mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston >> Website: http://houston.pm.org/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ >
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