You might find this approach interesting: http://jvi.sourceforge.net/
<wisper>use netbeans</wisper> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 4:35 AM, Carl Jokl <[email protected]> wrote: > I wanted to ask whether anyone has experience of the capabilities of > command line IDEs? I ask because I have not really tried doing any > development in anger from the Linux / Unix command line. I have only > really tweaked configuration files with vi and that is about it. > > I ask because I have a co-worker who has been rather condescending > about the use of any GUI tools. He seems determined never to use them > and thinks he can do everything more efficiently from the command > line. I would suppose it is harder given he is an Objective-C > developer on Linux. I don't think the options for Objective-C tools > and IDEs are that great to begin with unless you are on the Mac. I > tried a GNUStep IDE on Ubuntu called ProjectCenter. On the latest > Ubuntu I found the UI so buggy and flaky that the whole IDE is frankly > unusable. I have come back to it more than once and each time given up > because I can't work it (often through stupid things like mouse clicks > not being responded to or responding in the wrong place). > > To be honest I know if someone holds such an extreme anti GUI tools > opinion and is determined not to use them then it is pointless arguing > with someone like that because I don't think they are really prepared > to be convinced anyway. > > It did make me curious though as to what kind of development power is > available from command line editors like Emacs. I know that key > features I like in IDE's is the ability to hyperlink through to a > method declaration / class declaration or where a variable is > declared. Also finding the usages of a method is really valuable to me > as well as being able to apply various forms of refactoring. In theory > a command like editor could support some or all of that. However I > don't know what features are actually currently available. > > Just curious. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
