Eclipse
I gave eclipse and the cfeclipse plugin a good working out over the weekend, getting some work done for a client. It’s a nice environment, fairly lightweight and very clean in terms of interface. I enjoyed the tag insight and things like getting a short blurb on the parameters of a function or tag when you moused over it – however I found that the things that really improved my productivity in jEdit are the really advanced text navigation capabilities. The “smart” home and end keys, that let you go to the beginning of text on a line (IE after the indenting) with one press, then a second to go to the real beginning of the line with a second is great, and works in reverse for the end key as well. It makes a huge difference to the way I work and I had trouble living without it.
I find in general jEdit’s capacity for things like regex search, complex text selection and better navigation really made a difference for me. Snippets etc can be setup to work the same way in eclipse, although changing the font is almost impossible. What I liked about eclipse was the open, clean workspace, and the task list – a window at the bottom that shows you comments using “TODO:” or “DEBUG:” etc. Very handy as you’re working. I found the equivalent for the tasklist in jEdit today, and also found a number of settings that clean up the interface and give me a lot more real estate on the screen to work in so I’m pretty happy with that.
If I can find the time I do want to attempt to port the CFC code outline from eclipse into jEdit, and I do like the cvs integration with diff screens etc, but overall I think I’m sticking with jEdit at least for the immediate future.
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