From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-04-14T00:34:02+09:00
Subject: Re: What is your favourite IDE?

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> bgulian@gmail.com wrote:
>> The
>> interactive Ruby shell in Komodo does not work as well as irb.
>> 
> I mentioned that on the Komodo beta mailing list. The way they have the 
> shells set up makes it difficult but not impossible to interface with "irb", 
> but their developers are looking for a way to do it -- they know Rubyists 
> can't live without the look and feel of irb. I'm not that sort of hacker, or 
> I'd take a shot at it. What little Komodo hacking time I have I was planning 
> on spending doing a lexer for the R language. :)
>
>> I use Vim and bash all the time and I am confident that they do not
>> constitute an IDE despite arguments to the contrary in this forum.
>> 
> Emacs is closer than Vim, and Vim is gaining on Emacs, but yes, neither 
> constitutes a true IDE. I think I could make a case for the Linux desktop as 
> an IDE, however. :)

screen + vim is the best ide ever imho.  amazingly, it works for all source
code types ;-)

-a
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