On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 06:28:16PM +0000, costas at meezon.com wrote: | On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 22:24:43 -0600, "bowman" <bowman at montana.com> | wrote: | | >> An IDE that tries to accomodate multiple languages is a poor IDE. | > | >In general, my idea of an IDE is gVim. However, to give the devil his due, | >the MS IDE can accomodate several languages while providing a common set of | >tools. Part of the reason I stick to gVim is the seamless support for just | >about any language I choose to work with. True, it is just an editor and not | >a IDE, but if I go to the trouble of learning my way around an IDE, I | >certainly would want it to support all the languages I customarily use. | | Can gVim do the following? | | a) Have autocompletion / intellisense in the editor. no, this is one feature that would be really cool. OTOH, it makes for a lazy coder who can't (doesn't, rather) remember the function/variable names. (This is from experience using JBuilder for a while) | b) Have a built in debugger no, that's the debugger's job, not the editor <wink>. Use the debugger best suited for the current language. A link between them (to jump to particular lines of code) would be cool. | c) A console to execute ad-hoc commands. sort of, with the ':!' command. Emacs can have a buffer with a shell running in it (and still use other buffers). (can vim have a persistant buffer like that?) | Where can i check it out? www.vim.org BTW, (g)vim is scriptable using python (and perl and tcl) so any of the desired connections with other programs can be created. -D
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