begin quoting Gabriel Sechan as of Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 04:07:04AM -0600:
[snip]
> I'd be more likely to use an IDE if it was flexible- if you could say use
> the text editor in $EDITOR, the debugger in $DEBUGGER, and the compile
> system in $COMPILER. Of course when you get it to that level of
> flexibility, you basicly are doing the normal Unix way with an extra set of
> menus on top.
>
> Really, I don't see anything an IDE gives me that I can't have better by
> just opening 3 separate apps on a new workspace.
We ought to be able to bind 'em all to one toolbar with Tcl/Tk, no?
I don't know if ddd or (g)vim allows in back-door "control" hooks. The
Amiga used ARexx to "glue" programs together, and programs had hooks to
allow ARexx to manipulate the program -- which would make building an
IDE out of disparate tools quite feasible.
Perhaps the thing to do would be to look at how to get our favorite UNIX
tools to be controllable by an external process w/o trying to proxy
access to the user.
IDE
/ | \
/ | \
EDITOR | DEBUGGER
\ | /
USER
-Stewart "I'm thinking of Tcl again" Stremler
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