From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-11-10T01:17:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Investigating Ruby - key limitations ?

Devin Mullins <twifkak@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Personally, I need basically three things in an IDE:
> 1. Indentation management. Auto-indents when you hit enter, and allows 
> you to indent/unindent blocks of text.
> 2. Syntax highlighting.
> 3. "Folder drawer." TextMate does this perfectly for me -- no bells, no 
> whistles, just an interactive view of my directory tree. This is 
> especially important for Rails, where you start off with a pretty fancy 
> tree from Day 0.
> 
> I'm pretty sure it's possible to get all that in vi (or, at least, vim), 
> but I'm way too lazy to set it up. :)

That's my top 3 too - I do it by using konqueror in tree mode and
associating everything with gvim. Works fairly decently, though
Textmate's project tree support looks a lot better.

martin