Comments on: Making a better IDE http://www.credmp.org/2007/03/24/making-a-better-ide/ Ramblings of a code junkie Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:10:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: aadis http://www.credmp.org/2007/03/24/making-a-better-ide/#comment-1277 aadis Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:11:20 +0000 http://www.credmp.org/index.php/2007/03/24/making-a-better-ide/#comment-1277 Well, I've been using emacs for around 6 years now. This has been a cause for concern for me as well: emacs lagging in "modern" features. This means the rate of newer users coming in is dropping. But then again. emacs tends o lag the current set of tools/ideas by a while. This does give such things a chance to actually work out, and prevents emacs code dead ends either. I'm still undecided whether this is a good thing or not... Well, I’ve been using emacs for around 6 years now.

This has been a cause for concern for me as well: emacs lagging in “modern” features. This means the rate of newer users coming in is dropping.

But then again. emacs tends o lag the current set of tools/ideas by a while. This does give such things a chance to actually work out, and prevents emacs code dead ends either.

I’m still undecided whether this is a good thing or not…

]]> By: ChrisT http://www.credmp.org/2007/03/24/making-a-better-ide/#comment-390 ChrisT Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:36:59 +0000 http://www.credmp.org/index.php/2007/03/24/making-a-better-ide/#comment-390 Well let me begin first with the declaimer that I'm fairly new to Emacs. I code in Ruby for my job, and after searching around quite a bit and talking to my co-workers (both of whom use Emacs to write Ruby), I decided to make the leap myself. For the most part, I'm peachy happy. Emacs does most of what I'd wish, with the use of CEDET, ctags and the like. However, there certainly are a few things I miss from a full on IDE. Go to definition would be nice. ctags somewhat provides this ability, but how do I know I've gone to the right definition of a method currently being used by the object/script? Find usages - again somewhat able to do this by using ctags or a grep, but if you have two similarly named methods in your hierarchy, how do you know you're looking at the usages of the correct method? Debugging support, certainly. Or how about the ability to pop up a little menu, start typing in the name of a file and emacs start showing you possible matches? Again, somewhat doable with a grep...but not as friendly as how most IDE's approach that. I'm not sure if there already is a way to do some of the above mentioned...if so, I'd love to hear about. That's all I've got for now. Well let me begin first with the declaimer that I’m fairly new to Emacs. I code in Ruby for my job, and after searching around quite a bit and talking to my co-workers (both of whom use Emacs to write Ruby), I decided to make the leap myself. For the most part, I’m peachy happy. Emacs does most of what I’d wish, with the use of CEDET, ctags and the like. However, there certainly are a few things I miss from a full on IDE. Go to definition would be nice. ctags somewhat provides this ability, but how do I know I’ve gone to the right definition of a method currently being used by the object/script? Find usages - again somewhat able to do this by using ctags or a grep, but if you have two similarly named methods in your hierarchy, how do you know you’re looking at the usages of the correct method? Debugging support, certainly. Or how about the ability to pop up a little menu, start typing in the name of a file and emacs start showing you possible matches? Again, somewhat doable with a grep…but not as friendly as how most IDE’s approach that.
I’m not sure if there already is a way to do some of the above mentioned…if so, I’d love to hear about. That’s all I’ve got for now.

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