Hi Mecki: Whenever we get into discussions about editors, everyone mentions this editor they got for free or this editor they are using from one of those other guys or about the one they just cobbled together editor from EMACS, VIM or Notepad, for instance. Eclipse is a full blown IDE. Eclipse has hundreds of millions of development dollars. Would Brian and I love have that much money to create a specific U2 IDE? Well, we don't have that money and no one is offering it to any of us.
How does XLr8Editor make me more efficient? Hmm: Local History: In Eclipse every change made is saved in local history. I keep 200 program changes locally for each program. If I'm changing a program and want to go back to my 10:30am revision or look at the changes I made at 10:30am version against my current version with the built in compare editor. I can. Copy and Past: If I want to copy code or data into another directory or file, I never have to go to telnet or use any other tool because I can copy and paste from within Eclipse. I can copy megabytes per second using the U2 UOJ interface locally faster than you can use the COPY command. Search: If I want to search a program file of 7000 programs for a specific line or segment of code using grep syntax. I issue the search on my local drive without impacting the database server and it comes back faster than ESEARCH. I can do other things while it is searching. Eclipse saves all of my search in history so I don't have to do any of them again. Eclipse displays the matching line of code in the search box, so I have to do is click on and Eclipse opens the editor to that very line. Version Control: Eclipse has built in version control. You can even hookup to Microsoft's Team Foundation Server because Microsoft built an Eclipse plug-in. Maybe Microsoft knows something we should know. There are other version control plug-ins for CVS, Subversion, GIT, and Perforce. If you save an hour a week, at the end of year your savings easily justifies the cost if you programmers are making a $1.00 per hour. Really, is free worth it! Regards, Doug www.u2logic.com/tools.html "XLr8Editor for the Universe and Unidata" _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
