From: Jay Levitt Date: 2005-04-28T20:44:33+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] Arachno Ruby IDE 0.5.5 for Linux In article <525df23a0504260627566afd0a@mail.gmail.com>, rob.02004 @gmail.com says... > Jay Levitt wrote: > > Right now I'm using jEdit, which is ok but has too many quirks. > > Jay, what jEdit quirks are causing you problems? I'm working on the > next release of the Ruby Editor Plugin for jEdit, which along with > method auto-completion for the core Ruby types, will also fix some > quirks in the plugin's parsing of Ruby code. > > If you let me know your problems I might be able to get a fix into the > next release if they're related to the plugin. Nope, not plugin-related at all - I actually haven't been able to really sit down and code Ruby yet outside the tutorial. But I've started using jEdit for editing Perl, PHP, HTML stuff, and I keep running into things. A bunch turned out to be just defaults I didn't like (like the "smart home" key binding which I removed, or the lack of TAB binding to reindent). Some are outright bugs, like the seemingly-intentional unsupport for page-at-a-time wheel scrolling (tracker #1189908), or the fact that comment-blocks don't work in Perl mode. And a bunch are just poor UI choices, like double-clicking closing a tab, or the inability to memorize passwords, or the odd way that you have to escape from incremental-search mode, or the lack of modifier-free keyboard shortcuts in Yes/No dialog boxes, or the inability to rename buffers, or the lack of indenting in HTML mode, or, or, etc. It's almost as quirky as xemacs, though in very different and less fundamental ways, and certainly Java will be easier for me to learn and fix than LISP was. I'm sure I can hack and plugin jEdit to where it functions as I want it; it's just a shame that it's not cleaner by now. Eclipse looks (at first blush) to be much nicer, but the whole "project" model is incredibly intrusive when all I want to do is edit a file remotely, so it looks like jEdit will stay as my default choice for now. -- Jay Levitt | Wellesley, MA | I feel calm. I feel ready. I can only Faster: jay at jay dot fm | conclude that's because I don't have a http://www.jay.fm | full grasp of the situation. - Mark Adler