I support VIM / GVIM all the way Thanks & Regards, Dhruva Sagar.
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 17:47, Marnen Laibow-Koser <li...@ruby-forum.com>wrote: > tonypm wrote: > > Interesting that no one hs yet mentioned emacs. > > Ah, good point. Emacs is my favorite console editor, but I'm not all > that crazy about the graphical versions I've tried. > > > I decided the other > > day to give it a go since so many posters had raved about it and > > Netbeans sluggishness was frustrating me. > > NetBeans is an excellent IDE, but it's overkill for Rails. (I'd be > curious to know about it's sluggishness, though -- it has consistently > been pretty fast for me on Snow Leopard.) > > [...] > > Got the speedbar working for rails files - necessary for my transition > > since I am finding grasping all the keyboard command sequences very > > hard. > > Then I'd almost say you shouldn't use Emacs. You definitely have to be > comfortable with keyboard commands to get the most out of it. > > > > > The biggest hurdle seems to be finding out exactly what can do with > > it. > > Often, yes. > > > Syntax highlighting is great > > Any better than in other editors? > > > and being able to directly open > > views from being in a controller action etc is great, > > This is one thing I miss in Komodo. Aptana has this. > > > but all the > > other stuff seems a million miles away. > > > > Although I am finding it difficult I intend to persevere, the thing I > > feel that is slowing me down at the moment is switching between > > buffers when working with multiple source files. > > You might want to investigate a GUI version of Emacs, then. I don't > like the ones I've tried, but you might. > > > > > I have never done much with auto completion or snippets even with > > Netbeans, but suspect that there is performance gain just waiting to > > be harvested. I am envious when I watch Ryan Bates editing code he > > zips around so elegantly (I know that is Textmate but emacs is > > supposed to come close to it) > > IMHO, so does KomodoEdit. Actually, Emacs "coming close to [TextMate]" > is a funny statement: Emacs is probably the more powerful of the two. > > > > > There are some screencasts around for emacs and rails, but they have > > no sound and the casters seem to forget that they are dealing with > > novices and screens flash around with invsible keystrokes in a way > > that makes my head hurt. Nevertheless they do give an overview of > > what is possible. > > > > I havn't yet found a quick way to duplicate a line or series of lines > > eg alt+ctl+down arrow in netbeans - if anyone can enlighen me I would > > be grateful. > > C-k, C-y, C-y. There may be a faster way. If you don't know this, you > *really* need to spend time on Emacs basics. > > > > > Tonypm > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koser > http://www.marnen.org > mar...@marnen.org > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rubyonrails-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
