From: Edgardo Hames <ehames@...>
Date: 2004-08-31T03:12:35+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] aeditor 1.7

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 01:30:27 +0900, Brett Williams
<brett_williams@agilent.com> wrote:
>
> This, BTW, is just my two cents.  I have nothing but respect for all of
> the IDE and editor projects.  I just don't agree that the editor is "one
> of the smallest parts" of an IDE.
> 
> I realize I may not be typical, but on any given day I will probably
> edit files of all of these types:
> 
> ruby
> verilog
> c++
> tcl
> text
> xml
> bash
> makefiles
> 
> Less frequently, I can add perl, scheme, DEF, LEF, html, C, and Python.
> 
> I don't want to change editors for all of these tasks.  So my editor
> needs to understand all of them.  The editor also needs to be powerful
> (I can't imagine editing XML with nothing but CUA type operations, for
> example).

Well, Eclipse can suit your needs, then. It fits all the editors in
the same IDE.
Except for toolbars or key-bindings, it's pretty much transparent
which editor it is using. Perhaps, the text editor is not "one of the
smallest" parts of and IDE but it surely needs not to be tied to it.

Regards,
Ed
-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan