On Mar 30, 2005, at 11:34 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
I had looked at XCode
So what is the story with XCode? Has Apple made it extensible and customizable enough that it could be made into a good general purpose IDE/editor? One thing that has always bugged me about all the IDEs I've even seen is that they are designed for a couple languages/compilers,a nd are lousy for other things. That's why I use Xemacs for everything on Linux: It has an excellent mode for every kind of text file I've ever needed to edit. I still haven't found an editor on the Mac I like much. I use BBedit, but it doesn't handle indentation very well with Python, and there are a number of things I don't like about the interface. I think what I like least is that Bare Bones decides how it will work, and if you don't like that: too bad. Is XCode better?
I had high hopes for Pepper, but it has been in limbo for a long time now. Maybe Eclipse will be my savior...we'll see.
Xcode isn't terribly extensible via public API, but it has a very modular design if you prod at it, so there's a possibility that they'll open the flood gates in the future. It will let you plug in arbitrary code (but you have no documented APIs to do much with, beyond AppKit), and add stuff to the scripts menu.
How come you're not using XEmacs, Terminal+Emacs, or Carbon Emacs on Mac OS X? Personally I use Vim in a terminal. I plan to switch to Xcode for Python development when it's sufficiently documented and extensible, though.
-bob
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