ActiveState going the wrong way

[rainy]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:28:16 GMT, costas at meezon.com <costas at meezon.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 22:24:43 -0600, "bowman" <bowman at montana.com>
>wrote:
>
>>> An IDE that tries to accomodate multiple languages is a poor IDE.
>>
>>In general, my idea of an IDE is gVim. However, to give the devil his due,
>>the MS IDE can accomodate several languages while providing a common set of
>>tools. Part of the reason I stick to gVim is the seamless support for just
>>about any language I choose to work with. True, it is just an editor and not
>>a IDE, but if I go to the trouble of learning my way around an IDE, I
>>certainly would want it to support all the languages I customarily use.
>
>Can gVim do the following?
>
>a) Have autocompletion / intellisense in the editor.

There is autocompletion, using ctrl+n/p.

>b) Have a built in debugger

Not really built-in, but you can perhaps set it up to run
from vim, return line number to vim, etc.. since vim is
scriptable in python.

>c) A console to execute ad-hoc commands.

You can execute shell commands with :!,
you can get the output of programs run back to the file
you're editing i.e. :r!date,
you can set up a macro that cuts current line and executes
it as a shell program.. or have another rxvt running.


>
>Where can i check it out?

http://www.vim.org


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	Andrei