Vi plugin for eclipse? [duplicate] - eclipse

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What is the most useable VI/Vim plugin for Eclipse?
I have seen a few vi plugins for eclipse. Can anyone suggest which one is the best (not buggy, maintained easy to install...)?
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I have found Vrapper to be the best one. It is free and does a very good job of providing the most important features of vi/Vim.
As I have checked a minute ago it is still developed.

I've found viplugin to be sufficiently powerful and robust that I've paid for it. It's not often I would say that!

I used a bunch of them and my definitely favorite is http://viableplugin.com/ . It's not free, but it actually works like real VIM. In Vrapper you can't search and replace properly, and simple commands like capital-P are subtly different.

I'm using both, viable and viplugin and i like both of them. Both are commercial plugins and both are more than just worth the 15 Eruros. Right now I prefer viplugin, as there's a lot of development going on lately (a new version is released once a week).

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Can anyone suggest me a easy to use Perl language IDE with GUI designing support for Ubuntu.
Take a look at the EPIC plugin for Eclipse. I've used that a few times, and if you like Eclipse, it's very nice.
If you never used Eclipse before, you need to download Eclipse, install it, and then install the EPIC plugin.
Komodo is one of the nicest IDEs for Perl, works with Linux, and is now on sale for only $245!
Gabor Szabo, one of the big Perl mucki-mucks, created Padre. I have never used it, but if Szabo was involved, it's probably pretty good.
I personally use VIM. Yes, it's not an IDE, but it does syntax highlighting, and you can reference the Perldoc by pressing K over a keyword or module name. VIM isn't as easy to use as an IDE, but I find editing in VIM much faster than most IDEs.

eclipse check in by line when using perforce (like how intelliJ does it) [duplicate]

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so this is a question i'm struggling to google (i don't know the terms) - i'm sure there is an answer out there somewhere.
In intelliJ i can press some button (seen my coworkers do it) to see who checked in which lines of code in a file. It is pretty nifty stuff.
Does eclipse let me do that when coupled with perforce? If so, how can i do that?
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And now i see that this is a VC-specific feature, let me expand the question to include the use of perforce.
I'm not sure about Eclipse, but with the P4V tool you can use 'Time Lapse View'. It's very powerful and easy to use, and will help you understand who changed which line in complete detail.
See: http://www.perforce.com/resources/tutorials/time-lapse-view
In Subversion vocabulary, this is called a "blame" (or "annotate", this is supported in the Subversive plugin: https://stackoverflow.com/a/224221/500478
The P4Eclipse plugin has a native blame tool available from the Team menu.

Is it a good idea to develop an IDE for scala?

I have to choose a sizable (but not too sizable!) project for my next & last term in university. I thought maybe a nice IDE for scala is what the world might need right now :).
Would you like to see an IDE specifically made for scala? Or are you more comfortable using (the already available) plugins for popular (mainly java) IDEs & editors?
What do you think about the whole idea?
P.s. I'd make it open source & would add features one by one, so if it doesn't end in one semester, it won't be a problem from the university perspective.
Actually, not anymore. IntelliJ, Netbeans and Eclipse all have Scala-specific efforts that have more man-hours in it than you could possible start to begin putting in at a last term. And there's two very interesting efforts that were results of projects like that, both of which were made to contribute to any IDE effort: ENSIME and Scala Refactoring.
And, beyond these efforts, most programming editors, such as jEdit or TextMate, also have some Scala support to one degree or another.
So, really, contributing to one of these projects might be a good idea, but making a Scala IDE is not.
For his Masters thesis, Mirko Stocker contributed the refactoring functionality to the Eclipse Scala plugin, see:
http://misto.ch/scala-refactoring-talk-at-scala-days-2010/
Instead of creating an IDE from scratch, why not contribute a major piece of functionality to the Eclipse plugin, all contributions are welcome. For ideas, see tickets.
Or instead of reinventing the wheel.. you can contribute..
http://wiki.netbeans.org/Scala
But I am not sure if it will be somehow enough for your university work. At the same time, as you see, those plug-ins still require a lot of work.
While writing your own IDE you will just trying to solve problems that were already solved and tested. Besides, even if - what kind of IDE is that, which allows you to do
Scala (even if its great) only. So just for simple xml edit of ant file or whatever you will need another tool.
I think Brian Clapper already summed it up nicely.
I'd suggest something like CheckStyle but for Scala might go down well and be reasonable to tackle as a project.
Not a Scala developer but an Eclipse plug-in would probably be a worthy senior project.
Concur. Operating systems, text editors, and IDEs...does the world really need more of them? No. But everyone wants to write one.
If you want to do something useful, as opposed to simply academic, develop an extension for an existing IDE. Eclipse, NetBeans, Komodo, etc. are all nicely extensible through plugins.

[Aptana/Eclipse]: Which one is better? [closed]

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I want to know which one is stable, fast and easy to use?
I installed the Aptana Studio Eclipse plugin this year when I was playing with Rails for fun. Eclipse was never the same again. Suddenly it took two or three times as long to load any Java or Haskell project, Eclipse started crashing intermittently and it completely messed up my layout. It wouldn't let me uninstall it and "manually" uninstalling it seemed to make it worse!
Rails was fun to play with but I had to learn to live with the Aptana plugin. I eventually got rid of it by totally deleting Eclipse and starting over. It wouldn't have been so bad if it didn't seem to take over Eclipse in a Cthulu-like way. I really liked the integration with Rails which was done well, and it seemed to be have a lot of features that would be useful on larger systems.
Aptana is built on eclipse.
Aptana can also be installed as an eclipse plugin if you already have a well set-up eclipse environment.
If you mean "which is better PDT, or aptana?" I'd have to go with Aptana. If only because it also does lots of other things well. The PHP support isn't significantly different from PDT to make it worth the added weight Aptana brings with it. However, you're probably also looking for a good css editor, Javascript editor, etc, and Aptana does those well.
I use Eclipse for all my work, have done for years. Perfectly happy with it.
Must admit I've not done any detailed comparisons with other IDEs. I fear that getting objective comparisons between IDEs may be quite tricky. I think that the vi v emacs wars still rumble on on some areas.
Another Happy Eclipse User here.
My personal opinion. I use it for mainly Java and PHP.
If you write PHP codes in Aptana i do not suggest it. Because Aptana 2.0 does not provide PHP plug in. It installs Eclipse as a plug in. So install Eclipse (actually PDT) and use it for PHP development will be better choice.

Is eclipse visual editor dead?

The Eclipse Visual Editor project seems to be dead, no commits, no updates. Any one know what is happening?
Update 2: The project has been archived (i.e. dead) since June 2011 again.
Update: The project has been revived and is now under active development again.
Its pretty much dead due to a lack of developer support. Here are some recent posts from their mailing list talking about a lack of movement on the project.
What's happening? It's called NetBeans, and it's already happened.
I'm going to get voted down for this but they know it's true. I love eclipse and have used it religiously since I started Java. I'm not saying I like Netbeans, it's just all I hear whenever the concept of a Java visual editor is brought up.
The Jigloo plug-in for Eclipse is a pretty great alternative to the Visual Editor. Though still not quite as nice as the Netbeans GUI editor it is fairly robust and fully featured, especially compared to what was available in the Visual Editor plug-in. Definitely should give it a shot.
Actually NetBeans has gotten MUCH MUCH better. I've used Eclipse, Netbeans and IntelliJ for a few years each, and NetBeans is at least as good (performance, usability & features) as the others now.
It's also improving more quickly than the others are.
They have people working full time on alternate language support, so you'll find they have the best Ruby support in the industry, and I believe Python is about to become that good as well.
Of course, Eclipse still has that crazy-cool todo list that remembers which files you worked on for each bug and can take you back to the set of files/edits for any bug you've worked on, that's really amazing to use and I don't think it's available on either of the other platforms.
--- Revision from years in the future ---
I have used Netbeans more and really have to give the award to Eclipse. The difference has been in vertical programming environments--most will target Eclipse and ignore netbeans. You rarely need these, but when you need them there is often no way around them. If Netbeans does have an equivalent, it's often buggy to the point of not being usable, generally the biggest issue is emulator support.
You won't run into these unless you are working in a specific industry--Android development is one, the primary drive was to support Eclipse, NB seems to trail. Another I've worked on is in the TV/Cable industry.
For raw java development, however, I'd still give Netbeans a little edge because it's the environment that was targeted and supported by sun.
Visual Editor is doing a new release, 1.4, on September 16. Installation instructions for the RC are here:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/VE/Update
FWIW, the project did stall for a while. But there is a new, and relatively diverse group of folks working on it again. Most of the recent work is concerned with making the new release compatible with Eclipse Galileo.
It's officially dead as of May 2011. It's archived here, but slow to download and tricky to install. Instead, there's a new editor, WindowBuilder Pro.
Currentlty Google have Open Sourced the Windows Builder Pro. It seems nice
yeap,
http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t91368.html
Yes, sadly, it is dead. Looking at the aforementioned email threads regarding it's revival I get the feeling that even if it does get picked up it will quickly collapse under the weight of some new requirements ("make it universal, edit everything from SWT to HTML").
WindowBuilder can be a good alternative. I had several problems with VE and I end up with WindowBuilder who worked for me perfectly.
http://www.eclipse.org/windowbuilder/