From: "Rob ." Date: 2005-05-12T09:13:23+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Weekly News 24th April - 1st May 2005 How useful are jEdit users finding the type-based method completion in jEdit's Ruby Editor Plugin? Have you been more productive now you have this feature? I'm sure there are more improvements to be made as time goes by; release 0.6.5 hopefully has fixed the bugs reported so far. The plugin's integrated RDocViewer displays method documentation in sync with the selection on the method completion popup, which is an attempt to address Austin's final point below. Rob Tim Sutherland wrote: Ruby and IDE ------------ A thread discussing Ruby IDEs popped up again. ... Austin Ziegler had some interesting comments; "Type-based code completion is the very thing that will NOT work in Ruby. It *can't*. The best you can get is a "statistically likely" code completion that may break under a lot of circumstances." "IMO, a good Ruby IDE will support debugging; have ri and rdoc information easily and quickly available, and that's about it."