At 12:55 PM 7/10/2008, Chad wrote:
I have to admit, Idea is a very nice IDE, ....
Ruby support is as good as any other IDE, and any shortcomings in Ruby
support vs other IDEs are outweighed by the overall maturity of Idea.
The Groovy support is also pretty good.
However, I am finding myself less and less tolerant of huge, slow,
chrome-heavy IDEs, especially since they have little or no refactoring
support in dynamic languages like Ruby. Lately, I tend to use
TextMate.
I must admit to doing a lot of my programming in Emacs.
But, I also find it useful to combine Emacs editing
with use of an IDE to browse and comprehend a large code base.
Eclipse quickly detects when I've modified a source file
with Emacs and reloads it.
I would like to become a VIM power user, because it is a decent,
powerful, and truly cross-platform editor.
I've found a core knowledge of Vi to be tremendously helpful
for the last 25 years (revealing my age here). I can sit down
at any *nix based machine and instantly edit something.
However, that is a big
learning curve, and I would miss my tabs and scrollwheel...
Well, the obvious choice for you is Emacs, then. ;)
regards,
-tom
