From: "Alexandru E. Ungur" <alexandru@...>
Date: 2006-09-18T21:31:55+09:00
Subject: Re: what is the best ruby editor?

>>> sender: "A. S. Bradbury" date: "Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 08:46:28PM +0900" <<<EOQ
> On Sunday 17 September 2006 21:11, Edward wrote:
> > So I currently have resorted to JEdit which is a good general purpose
> > editor but not specifically for Ruby.
> 
> I'm assuming you have discovered Robert Mckinnon's Ruby JEdit plugin? 
> http://rubyjedit.org/
> 
> > What free editors for Ruby are there which have debugging,
> > intellisense, syntax coloring and the regular macros, etc.? What do you
> > guys use?
> 
> I'm really settling in nicely to vim7. If you just want vim's nice 
> indentation, coloring and so on, cream (http://cream.sf.net) provides a very 
> easy to use configuration. However, there's a lot to be gained by taking the 
> time to configure vim to act just as you want it.
> 
> This series of configuring Vim for perl developers gives a good run-through of 
> the most important configuration variables you might consider tweaking to 
> your taste: 
> http://mamchenkov.net/wordpress/2004/05/10/vim-for-perl-developers/
> 
> The only aspect of vim that put me off at first was editing multiple files, it 
> didn't seem very intuitive. 
Well, since you mention that, indeed that was a sore spot for myself
as well until recently. I missed the ease of working with files that
I experienced in Komodo for example (ability to organize them into 
projects, etc.). 
However a couple of days ago I discovered "Project"[1] which made me 
100% satisfied with my Vim setup. It's a really great plugin, and the
files management has become as pleasant as it can be now :)

Cheers,
Alex

[1] http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=69