On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Daniel Brown <danbrown@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:32, David Harkness <david.h@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > I do have to say that NetBeans more than Eclipse will randomly become > > unusable for unknown reasons: disk and CPU activity spike, > code-completion > > lags, whatever. Eclipse seems more solid in this regard. > > Whereas, on Linux, I've found the exact opposite to be true: > NetBeans seemed to work fine, while Eclipse would lock. > I used Eclipse on Windows and only a short while on Ubuntu, and I've used NetBeans exclusively on Ubuntu. I actually switched to using the beta and now dev builds of NetBeans because of the issues I mentioned. To this day when I'm editing PHP files, the disk is hit with every keystroke. This doesn't happen for any other file type such as Java. There's no good reason that I can think of for that, and it's quite annoying. That said, I only use IDE's when I want to see what's new in the > world, or to see if I could speed up my own development processes at > all. There are so many helpful additions to modern IDEs that I miss when I drop into basic editors. The key is integration. When I'm editing a file, the IDE shows me which lines have been modified, added, and removed. I can hover over the indicator to see the original text or revert the change. You can get this information outside the editor, but I find it speeds up my work to have it in one place. Of course, I often find myself using grep instead of the IDE's "find in files" feature. ;) Old habits die hard. I will admit that I never got to be much of an emacs or vi power user, and I'd bet they have a lot of the IDE capabilities I have grown to love. I also have poor vision requiring larger fonts for the main text area, and most IDEs (GUIs really) provide more tools for me to mitigate the problem than a fixed terminal. David
