From: Gregory Seidman <gsslist+ruby@...>
Date: 2007-05-04T00:32:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Enhanced Ruby editor

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:45:05PM +0900, CParticle wrote:
[...]
> My needs listed below for the curious and to keep the alternate editor
> suggestions to a minimum
> * Lightweight (smaller is better)
> * Cross platform (I use linux at home)
> * Free
> * Multiple tabs for many open files
> * Handles a fair number of language for syntax highlighting
> * Customizable (color schemes and added shortcuts for svn use)

Vim fulfills all of the requirements you've listed, and it's been my editor
of choice (counting vi before vim existed) for more than a decade and a
half.

> Recently I was working with someone on some VBscript and I noticed a
> feature that I had forgotten existed in VBscript editors.  That
> feature was a drop down box to switch between various functions.  I
> know that VBscript is different from Ruby but I was wondering if there
> are any Ruby editors that have something similar to traverse class
> definitions or blocks or any of the other Ruby structures.
> 
> I imagine that a person might be able to customize SCITE to add a
> feature like this but aside from not knowing LUA I'm also a relative
> coding and Ruby novice.  So I'm asking the group if anyone has seen or
> knows of something similar?

AFAIK, Vim does not currently have a facility to do that.

> C.Particle
--Greg