i am going to get crazy!!!

[Ian J Cottee]

Carlos Ribeiro wrote:

> -- There are two classes of developers: those who like IDEs and those
> who doesn't. The latter camp includes people that swear by Emacs, VIM,
> and stuff like that. I don't mean to sound badly, but such people
> don't get what's the fuss about a good IDE. They come from another
> background, and normally write another type of software, one that
> doesn't need such "fancy" gadgetry to work. Don't try to argue with
> them -- there's no right and wrong here, just different styles at
> work.

Must resist religious wars. Must resist religious wars BUT :-) ... Emacs 
*is* an IDE. More integrated than many others. And to be fair VIM is an 
IDE.

If, within  emacs I can get syntax hilighting, code completion, block 
indent/outdent, debugging, project management, code folding I would call 
that an IDE. And I have the same functions if I then need to edit some 
SQL, Javascript, ZPT etc. And when I want to play with Lisp in my spare 
time I can use the same environment. It's that flexibility that I like.

It isn't perfect though. Hence why I have been searching for something 
better as well. Maybe the future is Eclipse. Maybe the future is 
Emacs++. We shall see and I will continue to evaluate :)

Ian