Thread: Newbie

Well... That can be true, since I DL almost everything I see that looks interesting... But I've only gotten a virus once! An annoying virus that shows itself, that is :P and it wasn't even my fault -.-

Originally Posted by tabstop

In Vim? :make.
In emacs? It's C-c, uh, ..., I forgot the key binding but it's one of those mode commands. (Hey I haven't used emacs in years.)

Vim and emacs are both IDEs

Actually, although I say that partially in jest, it is only partially: by definition, if there is integration of various tools in the development environment, it is an integrated development environment.

Originally Posted by CornedBee

In my current project at work, it doesn't give me an appropriate suggestion about 95% of the times I'm writing an identifier.

Well, that is a shame, but if it had worked better, then would have agreed that an IDE is better in that sense, yes?

Alt+Tab, Up Arrow, Enter. Takes maybe half a second as opposed to the quarter of a second that hitting F7 takes. Considering that what happens next is compilation, which takes 5 seconds at least, you'll forgive me if I dismiss this difference as irrelevant.

And if you compile 100 times a day, that would make:
IDE: 100 x 0.25 = 25s.
Editor: 100 x 0.5 = 50s.

So that pretty much evens out the time it takes to open the IDE anyway. But the thing is that the editor is not superior in any way over an IDE and because an IDE usually packs other stuff close at hand, it usually better to use an IDE.

You also have to account for the time that you manually type out that compile command that the IDE does for you automatically even the first time around.

I type "make" in half a second.

Originally Posted by MeTh0Dz

1) First off they are both completely customizable, which means that you can get rid of any and all crap that you don't want (aka features...).

Which makes 0 sense unless you tie it with the second point...

2) Lightweight (enough said).

Which makes no sense either unless you have starved bandwidth when downloading, or scarce on hard drive space, the second being unlikely.

And this isn't an argument of VS vs. editors; it's about editors VS IDEs.