Ajai Khattri wrote:
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, David Krings wrote:
Sure, you can use some cryptic editor
Cryptic to *you* perhaps...
I know vi is the holy grail of editors, but I find it cryptic and unintuitive.
Sure, after learning all the keyboard shortcuts that amount more to a
scripting language you get a lot done, but I find it silly to spend more time
on learning the tool than learning the trade..... unless I am a vi salesman.
and it really gets your hands dirty, but
you are also less efficient.
Speak for yourself. With the right options and plugins, a good text editor
is great - muscle memory means I dont to think about the act of editing
but just focus on the code. And again, for *me* constantly
switching between mouse and keyboard is totally inefficient.
I use NuSpehere and find that I do not constantly switch between keyboard and
mouse. I use the mouse for tasks such as creating a new file in the desired
location (browsing is faster using a mouse) or when scrolling through the code
to set breakpoints.
I don't think that an IDE forces one to use a mouse constantly. There are
plenty of keyboard shortcuts and tab sequences that allow for working mouseless.
And if you take a text editor and install add-ons and plugins to help along
with coding it smells like IDE to me, at least the lines get blurred between
IDE and text editor.
What I like about NuSphere (and other PHP IDEs as well) is the integrated
server, the properly working debugger, and with that the option to set
breakpoints. I know I can accomplish that in other ways, but I tried to do so
with Eclipse and it was a total nightmare. Things may have changed by now.
By jolly, I'm not trying to make you a convert. I know of people who can
compile code in the brains and if they had a network plug in their ears they
wouldn't even need a PC.
Maybe the assembler developers who write firmware are fine with a simple
editor that has some really basic functions
Actually I coded assembler languages when I was a kid too, and most good
assembly language systems are more than just simple text editors...
I learned assembler on the Z80 and the editor that we had was really not much
more than a somewhat better text editor. It may depend on the development kit
that is available for the platform.
David
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