tonypm wrote: > Interesting that no one hs yet mentioned emacs. Ah, good point. Emacs is my favorite console editor, but I'm not all that crazy about the graphical versions I've tried.
> I decided the other > day to give it a go since so many posters had raved about it and > Netbeans sluggishness was frustrating me. NetBeans is an excellent IDE, but it's overkill for Rails. (I'd be curious to know about it's sluggishness, though -- it has consistently been pretty fast for me on Snow Leopard.) [...] > Got the speedbar working for rails files - necessary for my transition > since I am finding grasping all the keyboard command sequences very > hard. Then I'd almost say you shouldn't use Emacs. You definitely have to be comfortable with keyboard commands to get the most out of it. > > The biggest hurdle seems to be finding out exactly what can do with > it. Often, yes. > Syntax highlighting is great Any better than in other editors? > and being able to directly open > views from being in a controller action etc is great, This is one thing I miss in Komodo. Aptana has this. > 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. You might want to investigate a GUI version of Emacs, then. I don't like the ones I've tried, but you might. > > 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) IMHO, so does KomodoEdit. Actually, Emacs "coming close to [TextMate]" is a funny statement: Emacs is probably the more powerful of the two. > > 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. C-k, C-y, C-y. There may be a faster way. If you don't know this, you *really* need to spend time on Emacs basics. > > Tonypm Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
