>>Eclipse is a pig.<br>";)"<br>addToPigsList: 'NetBeans'<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jimmie Houchin</b> <<a href="mailto:j.squeak@cyberhaus.us">j.squeak@cyberhaus.us
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Squeak offers much in the way of creature comforts for developing. I<br>
miss them greatly any time I venture out of Squeak. I have never settled<br>or found an editor I like a lot. I'm not a Vim, Emacs, etc fanatic.<br><br>I'm not alone. Surveying the newsgroups of languages like Ruby, Python,
<br>et al, there are many searching for a great IDE.<br><br>How close is Squeak to being able to an IDE for other languages?<br><br>At this point its a curiosity for me. I currently don't have the time.<br><br>But, how much needs to be done to be able to:
<br>Edit in browser windows?<br>Have syntax highlighting?<br><br>I like being able to edit individual methods.<br>Having versioning on each save.<br>Then a simple export to a file.<br>How hard would this be to support in a standard browser or OmniBrowser?
<br><br>I wonder how many converts to Squeak, at least as far as contributing to<br>scratching their own IDE itch, we could gain by competing in the IDE arena.<br><br>Emacs and Vi(m) are odd to many people.<br><br>Eclipse is a pig.
<br><br>Just some thoughts.<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>Jimmie Houchin<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Hiren J.Thacker<br>Java Developer<br>e-Mechsys Ltd.