Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2114 mails)

["Benji Weber" <b.weber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/09/2007, Michel Salim <michel.sylvan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 07/09/2007, Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It now has a GUI designer?  Oh.
> >
> > That's the sign of an IDE for me.   I'll install it and give it another look.
> > the only other thing I'd seen is Stetic (http://www.mono-project.com/Stetic)
> > but haven't seen any examples of real use.
> >
> That's a rather narrow definition. That would mean early versions of
> Eclipse are not IDE -- no GUI designer. Even now, the GUI designer
> (Visual Editor) is optional, and actually is not yet available for the
> latest release.
>
> I'd personally draw the line between programmer's editor and IDE at
> code completion. Also, IDEs tend to support less languages better,
> while editors support more languages (easier to write plugins) less
> well (the plugins offer less features)

Even vim has code completion
http://benjiweber.co.uk/screenshots/omnicomplete2.png . Does that make
it an IDE? ;)

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Benjamin Weber
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