A little more on editors
I have been pretty open about my editor use over the last few months. I switched to emacs a while ago, then was trying Open Komodo, etc.
Then I became a consultant. It was cool at first, I have computer mojo, I am into this stuff, I decided to keep messing with my tools. I was spending a lot of time getting Open Komodo, or Gedit to a usable state. Once in a while I was popping back into emacs to see if I could make a go of things.
Then it happened. I realized, oh crap, I really am a consultant, and they really are only going to pay me for N hours on this, I actually have to get this done.
And like a little boy running for his mothers arms, I folded like a lawn chair. Hello tabbed terminal with 4 instances of vim going. For the last several weeks I have been using vim, and vim alone. I really do hope this is temporary, because I think there are things that other editors offer that I’d like to take advantage of. And I like to push myself into new things and ways of thinking. I hope that I have a long and satisfying life with many editors.
I don’t see Java developers having this issue.
4 tabs of vim is like lighting a fire with sticks while you have a barrel of gasoline and matches surrounding you everywhere you look!
Is there any good IDE for ruby? Are you just against the IDE and just want an editor?
Hey Ryan,
There are a couple of good IDE’s for Ruby. RadRails (based on Eclipse) and NetBeans are two.
I am not against IDE’s per se, but I do get a little distracted by them. I also like a large viewport into the code. I think that is why I really like using vim in the terminal, I can get the most screen real estate for my money.
Having said that, I do like having all the integration with other tools that IDE’s bring. Which was the largest reason I was using emacs for a while.
I also think I like to complain. :)
“I hope that I have a long and satisfying life with many editors.”
Polyeditorism is illegal. Has Texas taught you nothing?
“I think that is why I really like using vim in the terminal, I can get the most screen real estate for my money.”
I sure hope you expand the terminals beyond 80×24. The official editor when I worked at The Bad Place was vi (not even vim) run in an 80×24 window. Possibly because code lines had to fit within 80 columns (expanding the terminal window would have been illegal or something) variable names tended to be really short vowelless abbreviations that only meant something to the original developer (e.g. ‘clstrfk’).