Curt Hibbs
3/29/2005 5:05:00 AM
Lasse Koskela wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 05:24:46 +0900, gabriele renzi
> <surrender_it@remove-yahoo.it> wrote:
>
>>Lasse Koskela ha scritto:
>>
>>>As a Java guy, I'm tempted to stick within my beloved workhorse and
>>>not stray too far away from home. So far, I've only tried Scite and
>>>FreeRIDE in addition to RDT and I have to say I'm not too pleased with
>>>either. SciTE feels like coding with notepad, FreeRIDE crashed when I
>>>typed in a 5-line hello world and tried to execute it.
>>
>>have you actually set up the nice scite features like simple
>>autocompletion, multiple tabs and the likes?
>>Also, how did you succede killing freeride?
>>It may not be the most stable ide on earth, but It never crashed for me
>>by just executing a script, so maybe there is something mesed up.
>
>
> No, I haven't set up anything. Autocompletion and multiple tabs would
> already be an improvement over what I experienced of SciTE, but it
> still lacks a lot of the comfort I'm feeling with RDT.
>
> The way I got FreeRIDE to crash was as follows:
> 1) Create a new class, my_calculator.rb, with the following code:
> class MyCalculator
> def add(augend, addend)
> augend + addend
> end
> end
> 2) Execute (with F5)
>
> Now I know it shouldn't do anything (there's no "main" code to
> execute), but that time it crashed.
I just did the above in FreeRIDE and it did not crash.
> Also, when you try the automated "rename method" refactoring, the IDE
> window loses focus and nothing else happens. No error messages,
> nothing.
The refactoring stuff is clearly labelled as "experimental" -- it is not
production ready.
> Oh, and I'm running WinXP as well. Poor me.
Me, too.
Curt