From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-10-28T10:17:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Editing in Ruby

On 10/16/05, Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs@gmail.com> wrote:
> Its true that autocomplete is a difficult proposition in a dynamic language.
> There is work being done on this, but nothing yet that is any good. Anyway,
> don't expect to find usuable autocomplete anywhere in the near future.
>
> I disagree that IDE advice, though. One of the nice things you can get from
> the current batch of IDEs is code navigation -- a hierarchical tree that
> graphically shows you the modules/classes/methods of the file being edited,
> and you can click on one of these to navigate to that element in the code.
> This makes it easy to see the structure of the code you are editing.

Vim + taglist does this.  I don't use it though.