On 1/3/07, Martin Wood-Mitrovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Austin Haas wrote: > Hank, I think you are confused about how editors can handle multiple > languages. In emacs, when you open a java file, a java mode is loaded, which > sets up the environment for editing java code. When you code in actionscript, > it uses an actionscript mode. In each of these modes, everything about the > editor is setup just like it was an editor just for that language alone, > including everything from syntax highlighting to commands to compile your > code. I dont think he is confused, i think that he's trying to emphasise more than the standard editor features (highlighting / basic completion). Things like refactoring, wizards (which are incredibly useful in some areas of development) Visual Editing like Flex / VE in Eclipse, Matisse in NetBeans, UML round-trip engineering etc.. Theres a whole mountain of extras that you get from the JDT in Eclipse for Java development that would be incredibly hard to add into Emacs / Vi etc.. Unfortunately there arent any AS editors that are anywhere near the JDT so the capabilities of different editors are pretty much the same. hopefully this will change soon.
Yeah, this is a point I keep thinking, and which underlies most of what I am saying but Martin has said it in more detail here. If you don't code in Java you may not be familiar with some of the tools that are available. I think its stuff that *can* be done for actionscript, and, as Martin suggests, I hope soon there will be equivalent tools for actionscript soon. Regards, Hank
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