From: Huw Collingbourne <huw@...>
Date: 2007-04-13T07:00:05+09:00
Subject: Re: What is your favourite IDE? Eclipse DLTK!


"Todd Werth" <twerth@infinitered.com> wrote in message 
news:951f0bf1b085875916af2db2775c4a4d@ruby-forum.com...
> Peter C. Verhage wrote:
> I see a lot of people say something like "it is more than code
> completion, it's IntelliSense".  Many IDEs have similar, or even better,
> features than MS does with their IntelliSense.  They just can't call it
> that for legal reasons.


Bear in mind also that IntelliSense means on-the-fly code analysis. It isn't 
just code completion. Many IDEs provide code completion based on simple 
alphabetical lists or using method names declared in the current code file. 
That is a long way from IntelliSense. To provide IntelliSense, you need to 
interpret the code - not only the code that's being edited, but also also 
any changes that editing changes might introduce going right up the class 
hierarchy. In other words, a real IntelliSense system is an interpreter, not 
just a 'method-lookup' tool.

We've put a great deal of effort into Ruby In Steel's IntelliSense system 
and you might therefore understand why we are a little sensitive to other 
IDE's claims to IntelliSense when what they generally mean is 'code 
completion' ;-)

best wishes
Huw Collingbourne

http://www.sapphiresteel.com
Ruby Programming In Visual Studio 2005