From: Mark Woodward <markonlinux@...>
Date: 2007-04-14T09:50:05+09:00
Subject: Re: What is your favourite IDE?

Hi all,

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:46:16 +0900, Avdi Grimm wrote:

> On 4/12/07, ChrisKaelin <ck.stonedragon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, I should've written "vi, emacs, irb and commandline do not
>> count", but that would've given me some flames ;-)
> 
> Not a flame: how do they not count?
> 
> IDE stands for "Integrated Development Environment".  I can't speak
> for VI users, but Emacs has Ruby source code editing, project
> management, the ability to cross-reference code symbols,
> auto-completion, source templates, integrated source-level debugging
> (if you want it), IRB, and the ability to run your code and tests
> right from the editor.  What's missing that it fails to qualify as an
> IDE?

How can this http://platypope.org/yada/emacs-demo/ not be considered an
IDE? 

PS - I don't use Emacs. I use Vim + any nix utilities I need.

-- 
Mark