Rob .
5/12/2005 12:13:00 AM
How useful are jEdit users finding the type-based method completion in
jEdit's Ruby Editor Plugin? Have you been more productive now you have
this feature? I'm sure there are more improvements to be made as time
goes by; release 0.6.5 hopefully has fixed the bugs reported so far.
The plugin's integrated RDocViewer displays method documentation in
sync with the selection on the method completion popup, which is an
attempt to address Austin's final point below.
Rob
Tim Sutherland wrote:
Ruby and IDE
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A thread discussing Ruby IDEs popped up again. ...
Austin Ziegler had some interesting comments; "Type-based code completion
is the very thing that will NOT work in Ruby. It *can't*. The best you can
get is a "statistically likely" code completion that may break under a lot
of circumstances."
"IMO, a good Ruby IDE will support debugging; have ri and rdoc information
easily and quickly available, and that's about it."