From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-12-13T11:17:22+09:00
Subject: Re: The coolest thing since sliced bread

From: "Garriss, Michael" <Michael.Garriss@abacus-direct.com>


> > I've coded 2500 lines of Java in the last six days, and it
> > works.  The reason?
> > IntelliJ.  AFAIC, nothing could ever be a better text editor
> > than Vim, and
> > IntelliJ doesn't come close.  But Vim doesn't understand
> > Java.  IntelliJ does,
> > and it is 1000 times better at coding Java than Vim is.
> > IntelliJ can do
> > very-high-level things - automatically include "import"
> > statements, rename
> > classes, methods, variables (with all usages - and ONLY
> > usages - renamed),
> > extract methods from blocks of code, create methods from
> > usage, create iterator
> > templates, extract interfaces/superclasses from existing
> > classes, inline a
> > method/variable, alert you to all kinds of errors, move
> > classes to different
> > packages, handle CVS, ...
>
> I would be nice to be able to "plug-in" the existing vim into FreeRIDE.
> Many of the features you mentioned have already been implemented as vim
> plug-ins (some written in RUBY!) and are not the execlusive advatanages of
> IDE's over "editors".  I've handled CVS from vim for a long time.

None of those features that I've mentioned can possibly be handled from Vim
1/10 as good as IntelliJ does - not even handling CVS (it's done automatically
when you rename a class, etc).  And I'm the biggest Vim zealot there is :)

Gavin