From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-08-27T14:57:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby does not nead an ide

Charles O Nutter wrote:
> On 8/26/06, julesjacobs@gmail.com <julesjacobs@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Emacs *is* an IDE. It just doesn't have "advanced" features like code
>> completion based on the type of the objects.
> 
> 
> AMEN. I'm glad I'm not the only one tired of hearing Emacs users belittle
> IDE users, as though they're running any closer to bare metal. For a
> language like Ruby, for which code completion, refactoring, and similar
> features are much harder (or impossible) to implement, there's very little
> difference in weight between a nice IDE and Emacs. Last time I checked,
> Emacs was pretty damn big.
> 
I don't know about Emacs, but xemacs-sumo was bigger than OpenOffice.org
the last time I looked. :)