From: Ville Mattila <mulperi@...>
Date: 2005-01-28T02:15:56+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN]  Arachno Ruby IDE 0.4.0


I have had opportunity to be a beta tester for this release.
Guys this is some fantastic piece of work that Lothar is doing!!
Don't be phobic and try arachno!

I appended some comments about added features.

Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> writes:

>  Control-D Control-M  (Mnemonic:  Display-Matching) shows matching 'end' lines and
>  

   This great helper when you got those annoyning parse errors in your
   code.
   It first looks bit confusing, but in a second glance you are
   starting see, where the bug is. When I showed this one to my
   collague, he said that he will finally install arachno and starts
   to use it instead of Eclipse.


>  
>  Auto de-indentation is triggered immediately after you typed the end/else/elsif/rescue 
>  keyword.

   The auto identation works as well in emacs even better in some cases.
   This way better than in eclipse.
>  
>  Debugger now works with the official 1.8.1 and 1.8.2 release
>
>  Debugger works with RubyGems version 1.8.4 
>  Single stepping into a "require" gives strange results, so place a breakpoint behind the 
>  require statement and then do a continue (F9 key)

   Arachno's debugger is very good and fast!
>  

>  
>  Control-Space gives a context based completition. 
>  Tokens are generated from the content of the current file (excluding comments, regexpr
>  and strings) and then presented in a list. Tokens are ordered by there distance from the 
>  current caret line. You can use Control-Space or the cursor keys to move between different choices.

   This feature is absoute treasure. It saves typing about 80%. Try it out.
   This feature is worth trying alone.

>  
>  Code-Folding:
>  This feature is based on the same syntax parser that is used for the navigation sidebar.
>  It collapses methods, classes and modules. Folding also collapses the comment above an entity,
>  leaving the first comment line visible which should contain a summary of the method/class/module.
>  
   Code folding works great!

>  Indentation Lines:
>  Arachnos identation lines are not tab lines as they are in scintilla. 
>  They are based on existing indentations, independent if the line is adjusted on a 
>  tab position.

   These lines are great help as well for helping understanding where parse
   error might be!