Re: What IDE are you using?
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Re: What IDE are you using?

From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew@DeFaria.com>
Date: Mon Oct 24 2005 - 23:07:37 CEST

typingcat@gmail.com wrote:

> So you don't use an IDE but just a text editor?

I use XEmacs...

> Well, many computer gurus did like that in the past, but doesn't it
> take too much time for a novice like to remember all the members and
> functions or look them up in the manual?

That's why god invented the web! ;-)

One window in XEmacs, one in Firefox at http://php.net... And one OS to
bind them all... :-)

> I think code completion and class view really helps people like me.

That might be nice but it doesn't beat dabbrev mode where one can not
only code complete function names but anything like variable names, etc.
Received on Mon Nov 21 02:48:54 2005