Interesting that no one hs yet mentioned emacs. I decided the other day to give it a go since so many posters had raved about it and Netbeans sluggishness was frustrating me.
Well I have to say it has been hard work getting into emacs. I can just about use the editor, and after a fair bit of fiddling, googling and reading, I have rinari installed from ELPA and also emacs-rails. Got the speedbar working for rails files - necessary for my transition since I am finding grasping all the keyboard command sequences very hard. The biggest hurdle seems to be finding out exactly what can do with it. Syntax highlighting is great and being able to directly open views from being in a controller action etc is great, but all the other stuff seems a million miles away. Although I am finding it difficult I intend to persevere, the thing I feel that is slowing me down at the moment is switching between buffers when working with multiple source files. I have never done much with auto completion or snippets even with Netbeans, but suspect that there is performance gain just waiting to be harvested. I am envious when I watch Ryan Bates editing code he zips around so elegantly (I know that is Textmate but emacs is supposed to come close to it) There are some screencasts around for emacs and rails, but they have no sound and the casters seem to forget that they are dealing with novices and screens flash around with invsible keystrokes in a way that makes my head hurt. Nevertheless they do give an overview of what is possible. I havn't yet found a quick way to duplicate a line or series of lines eg alt+ctl+down arrow in netbeans - if anyone can enlighen me I would be grateful. Tonypm -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
