From: Gene Tani <gene.tani@...>
Date: 2005-12-09T04:32:36+09:00
Subject: Re: What's your opinion? ArachnoRuby, Komodo, Eclipse/RDT, RadRails, etc.


Curt Hibbs wrote:
> On 12/8/05, Gene Tani <gene.tani@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Curt Hibbs wrote:
> > > There's been a couple really good threads that are still ongoing about
> > Ruby
> > > IDEs in general and ArachnoRuby, Komodo, and Eclipse/RDT in particular.
> > I've
> > > been following these threads very closely because I'm writing an article
> > for
> > > O'Reilly on Ruby IDEs, and so far these threads have been really helping
> > me
> > > collect information for this article.
> > >
> > > So, What I'd like to do is to consolidate everyone's opinion in a single
> > > thread both for my benefit, and your's, too.
> > >
> > > I'm mostly interested in cross-platform IDEs that are available on
> > Windows,
> > > Linux and OSX. Of the IDEs that you have actually used. What are your
> > > favorite features of each one (especially those you find essential), and
> > > what things or omissions do you find annoying?
> > >
> > > I'd like to keep this discussions to real features that actually exist
> > in
> > > today's IDE, and leave out stuff that we only wish would be there.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Curt
> >
> > OK, promoting OS X snobbery, but i think of the (small) group of
> > python/ruby/C/perl-capable editors:
> >
> > vim,(whatever kinda) emacs,komodo, textmate, jedit, eclipse
> > (Wing? Arachno?)
> >
> > textmate has the nicest default syntax coloring, komodo and arachno
> > throw a lot of colors up (and Komodo doesn't quite get it 100%, e.g.
> > meth names in singleton and class method definitions, but it works
> > quite well):
> >
> > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-December/313693.html
>
>
> Actually, I'd say that ArachnoRuby throws up a lot of colors. Komodo is
> fairly conservative in its use of color.
>
> Curt

i use the dark background Komodo default, the white background default
is too washed out on a CRT (remember CRTs?)

Sometimes I spew code out for a while, then have to hunt for an
unmatched paren, single-quote, whatever, so I'll stare at it in
vim,emacs, komodo, arachno, eric, ...  Good to have more than 1 monitor.