Re: IBM vs. Microsoft vs. ... Ruby?

Hello.

bonefry:

> Emacs/VI are good but they have an almoust vertical learning curve.

:o) The worst thing is I can't easily use Gedit/Notepad/Word after
using vim for everything (like writing this email) on a daily basis.

> And I really miss features of Eclipse like a good
> file browser, jumping to the class/method declaration,

FWIW, I learned yesterday about ctags[1], which seem to work quite
good for me (if I can judge them after just two days' use with a PHP
project).

> a class hierarchy viewer, code checking while typing, and all those
> refactoring and code generation tools. And code auto-completion could
> be made to work where it's possible.

I'm totally *not* writing from experience here, but I believe file
browser, class hierarchy viewer and code auto-completion are also
doable with vim and its plugins.

[1] http://ctags.sourceforge.net/, Debian/Ubuntu package exuberant-ctags

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