On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:48:15PM +0200, Idan Arye wrote: > On Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 20:43:47 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > >That's something I never really understood about the Windows / GUI > >world. The backend functionality is already all there, yet for some > >strange reason the application refuses to have the means to access > >that functionality, requiring instead for you to install "plugins". > >To me, a "plugin" should *enhance* functionality by adding what > >wasn't there before, but in this case, it seems to be more about > >removing artificial barriers to reveal what has already been there > >all along. Same thing goes with the iPhone emoji apps, and many other > >such examples. > > > >As a CLI-only person, I find this really hard to grok. > > With the popularity of XML build systems, that shouldn't be that > hard for an IDE to provide you with a GUI to edit the targets and > make complex build processes. I would have expected big IDEs like > Eclipse to have that feature...
Yeah, what with all the fancy code-editing features, you'd think having a built-in XML editor would be easy... XML is a pain to edit by hand, though, if your editor doesn't understand XML. It's sorta like Java and IDEs; in theory, you *can* write Java with nothing but pico, but in practice, it's so verbose that it's only tolerable if you use an IDE with autocompletion. T -- It said to install Windows 2000 or better, so I installed Linux instead.