You know, I was writing a reply when this came in. Couldn't really say it any better myself.
The great thing (one of them, anyway) is that if you install Aptana and don't like it, you can simply remove it without disturbing your base Eclipse install. So, yea, I'd say go ahead and try it. My guess is you won't look back. For HTML and CSS, it just can't be beat. JS editing isn't too bad either, but like Charlie, I use JSEclipse. That really wasn't your question, tho. :) I would not qualify Aptana as overkill whatsoever. It does exactly what it sounds like you are trying to do, and it does it well. Better than Homesite, even (TopStyle - blech!). On Dec 8, 2007 10:56 AM, Charlie Griefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yeah, i was the one that made the "taking over" comment. i prolly > shouldn't have done that :) > > Aptana's not a small plugin. It does CSS. it does JS. it does HTML. > And last few times I've gone to start Eclipse, Aptana's alerted me > that I need to update it. I guess that's not a bad thing... i'm just > not used to eclipse plugins being so proactive. > > But... i couldn't imagine my Eclipse install without Aptana for CSS (I > use JSEclipse for Javascript tho). > > Now, here's the rub... as you do seem to understand... when you're in > a .cfm file, you'll be in the cfeclipse perspective. any css that's > in the cfm will be styled by cfeclipse. AFAIK, a single document is > controlled by a single plugin. You can't have CFEclipse handling the > coldfusion portion of a .cfm page and Aptana handling the css portion > of that same page at the same time. > > so a few suggestions... > > 1) install aptana > 2) separate out your css from your cfm > 3) subscribe to the cf-eclipse mailing list > > On Dec 8, 2007 8:47 AM, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I swear Rick, you like to make your life difficult > > > > You sound just like my wife, Crow... and I think you're both right! > > > > Anyway... I installed Aptana several months back before installing > > Eclipse or CFE, and didn't like it. It was more of a full develop > > environment for JS, etc, as I recall, for which I have no use. > > > > I'm just looking for something really simple to add to my CFEclipse > > perspective. > > > > Even Aptana says on their website, that to get the full benefit of > Aptana, > > you really should use it in its *own* perspective. Maybe I > misunderstand, > > but that seems like it's asking for more than I want. > > > > That, plus the comment that someone else made on this thread (sorry, > can't > > recall who) that Aptana seemed to "want to take over" their Eclipse > setup, > > made me wary of going that route without checking into other solutions > first. > > > > So you think Aptana is the way to go? > > > > Rick > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Crow T. Robot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 11:26 AM > > > To: CF-Talk > > > Subject: Re: Is there a way to get css color coding with the cfeclipse > perspective? > > > > > > Why is Aptana "overkill"? > > > > > > I swear Rick, you like to make your life difficult. Have you > installed > > > Aptana? How do you know it is overkill? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294403 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
