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On 17/10/06, Jon <jonathan.holloway@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What does everybody here think of the current crop of IDE's? Is everybody > veering more to Eclipse and the vast range of plugins and perspectives it provides > or > something else? > > Just wondering : ) I use Eclipse on a daily basis for most programming, Java > and PHP mostly. Easy there java boy - not every programming language requires a ton of tools to be productive. I'm working on some pretty big perl projects just using emacs. I tried using Komodo and Visual Studio half a decade ago and they simply weren't up to the job. I find the faffing about with menus, losing screen space to 'helpers', and having to use the mouse to gain any benefits slowed me down considerably. The only useful feature I ever found was Komodo's regexp tool, which kicked ass, but the IDE was so sluggish that any time saved using that over a one liner on the command line was lost. I find that with a couple of multitab browser windows open in different virtual desktops, I'm sorted for documentation and with emacs spread accross several more virtual desktops I need more monitors rather than more features. I can probably run my unit tests quicker from the command line quicker than I could reach a mouse, but then I no longer have a mouse - If I had to give up my laptop I'd have to find a happyhacker style keyboard but with built in trackpad. A. -- http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Hosting -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html