From: Gregory Seidman <gsslist+ruby@...>
Date: 2007-05-04T01:01:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Enhanced Ruby editor

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 12:45:07AM +0900, CParticle wrote:
> On May 3, 10:54 am, anansi <kaz...@oleco.net> wrote:
> > CParticle wrote:
> > > That feature was a drop down box to switch between various functions.
> >
> > I know this feature from borland's delphi IDE, I think you mean that if
> > you type behind an object a dot like: "object." You get a drop down box
> > with every possible method for this object. I also couldn't find
> > anything which works similar for ruby.
> >
> > At the moment I'm just using gedit with ruby syntax-highlighting which
> > works fine.
> >
> > I heard eclipse should be nice for ruby but in mine eyes eclipse is
> > slow, ugly and overloaded so at least I don't wanna use it. Maybe you
> > wanna risk some testing with it.
> 
> When I'm referring to a drop down I'm talking about a tool bar drop
> down.  I'm not speaking about the context sensitive drop down that
> suggest all possible choices while you are typing code.  What I'm
> talking about is a feature that simple let you go to a particular
> already written block of code.  So if you have written multiple
> functions in a long script it lets you select any one of those and
> jump right to it instead of having to go searching through the code to
> find that particular section.

Ah, this is supported by ctags. It sounds like the kind of extension
someone would have written already for Vim. Do some searching at
http://www.vim.org/search.php to see if what you are looking for is already
out there.

> CParticle
--Greg