>>Eclipse is a pig.
";)"
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On 7/1/06, Jimmie Houchin <j.squeak at cyberhaus.us> wrote:
>
> Squeak offers much in the way of creature comforts for developing. I
> miss them greatly any time I venture out of Squeak. I have never settled
> or found an editor I like a lot. I'm not a Vim, Emacs, etc fanatic.
>
> I'm not alone. Surveying the newsgroups of languages like Ruby, Python,
> et al, there are many searching for a great IDE.
>
> How close is Squeak to being able to an IDE for other languages?
>
> At this point its a curiosity for me. I currently don't have the time.
>
> But, how much needs to be done to be able to:
> Edit in browser windows?
> Have syntax highlighting?
>
> I like being able to edit individual methods.
> Having versioning on each save.
> Then a simple export to a file.
> How hard would this be to support in a standard browser or OmniBrowser?
>
> I wonder how many converts to Squeak, at least as far as contributing to
> scratching their own IDE itch, we could gain by competing in the IDE
> arena.
>
> Emacs and Vi(m) are odd to many people.
>
> Eclipse is a pig.
>
> Just some thoughts.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jimmie Houchin
>
>


-- 
Hiren J.Thacker
Java Developer
e-Mechsys Ltd.
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