On 09/05/11 18:47, Brion Vibber wrote: > On 09/05/11 15:08, Tod wrote: > > Is there an IDE that the MW developer community has settled on and can > > recommend? > Some hardcore people use a terminal-based editor like vim or emacs by > choice; the best of these are extremely powerful with syntax& navigation > features though they tend to have a higher learning curve.
The whole point is looking like a hacker at social events :b I had people frown upon me while I was just writing a blog post. Priceless. Anyway, the top reason I use vim, is that vi is part of POSIX which guarantee him to be available on any Unices. Be it a Juniper router, a Macbook, the popular Linux or an obscure IRIX server (the one covered by dust that was managed by "Joe" who left the company 2 years ago). vim comes with almost anything you need, and more. Most commands are available in very few keystrokes but the learning curve has a huge slope at the beginning :-( I used Eclipse a long time ago, but found it to be too slow and unstable, it probably changed by now. Or try Netbeans as recommended by Brion. The feature I am missing, is the documentation popup above the caret when: - filling function parameters - choosing a class method (show the method doc) They come from the PHP doc blocks we are using. You can also try TextMate which is popular among core ruby on rails developers (or at least they pretend so). It is only for Mac, and I am not sure how well PHP is supported. -- Ashar Voultoiz _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
