RE: IDEs

I use either NetBeans with the xml/xsl editing modules, or Oracle 9i
JDeveloper (mostly at work). NetBeans has good CVS support. But one
extremely annoying issue is that sometimes my finger slips and I hit
Cntl-Z instead of Cntl-X and it immediately freezes the application,
requiring a process kill. (Probably because it's being launched from a
shell script?).

The editors in both are barely adequate, however. I used to use
XEmacs+JDE, which had really powerful text manipulation. The big IDE's
however are limited to cut/copy/paste, search/replace (regex support
maybe) and indent/unindent. Smart indenting is not so smart, Emacs has a
feature where you can select a block and 'pretty-print' (format) it to
your code standards. However, figuring out how to do CVS and install
xml/xsl packages in emacs is non-trivial.

So, I've yet to see the best of both worlds....
Received on Fri 05 Apr 2002 10:35:03 -0800