What I always tell my guys at work is that they can use whatever tools they want, so long as (a) it allows them to work most efficiently and (b) they can share work (i.e., no tools that force you into some proprietary project structure). As long as you can run an ANT script to build the project, I don't really care what IDE or other tools you use to get there. I'm a minimalist, it works best for me, but it doesn't for everyone (in fact, I'm in the minority and I know it!)
Frank
Dave Newton wrote:
Frank W. Zammetti wrote:
Macros are an absolute must for me, and it's art of the reason I still use nothing but UltraEdit... all the fancy code refactoring tools and such that all the IDEs have I wind up doing in macros, and I have more control over how they work, at least, it sure feels like I do.
Well, you certainly have more control, but I don't think I'd want to write a macro that extracted code chunks into methods with automagically-correct parameter signatures, return types, etc. or pulling methods up or down, changing method signatures and propagating it through my code, etc.
Having context-sensitive code completion/auto-complete is nice too, especially for verbose languages like Java etc.
Dave
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