tonypm wrote: [...] > When you've been used to the normal windows > style keystrokes,
"Normal"? What makes them any more or less "normal"? > the emacs ones take a bit of getting used to. But > I am getting there by forcing myself to use it for my real > development. I am already beginning to feel more comfortable. [...] >> 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.) > I do like NetBeans, but I found it is hungry on resource, and I notice > a distinct delay when browsing the file tree or opening a file etc. > Also, the auto suggest popup boxes keep coming on. I turn them off > but they reappear. I find that annoying because they frequently pop > up just as I have finished entering a line, and their appearance > causes a delay whilst they are escaped. I may be missing a setting > somewhere to turn them off. For portability, I actually use a small > machine for development, which is probably why NB feels a bit slow. Right! You don't need a heavy IDE for Rails, so don't use one. [...] >> > �Syntax highlighting is great >> >> Any better than in other editors? > Not necessarily better, but haml and sass highlighting is available > which is not true for all other editors (I actually like bluefish a > lot, but I havn't found a haml/sass option). Flagging of syntax > errors seems pretty good too. KomodoEdit has a Haml module (not Sass, though), which is one of the reasons I really like it for Rails. 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.
