12/22/2023 0 Comments Komodo edit ide fix![]() It has lots of great code cleaning and formatting tools. If I decide to join the Vim vs Emacs holy war, it has a Vi emulation mode and key bindings for both. Project organization tools work well, comment and TODO handling is perfect, and lo and behold, the split-screen browser, a feature I normally chuck completely as they don’t work with all of my various AJAX calls and JavaScript libraries, worked perfectly (looks Gecko based). Syntax highlighting is easily customized, syntax problem detection works flawlessly, and it was the first time I found code completion to be more than a hindrance. It launches fast enough that I never thought of reaching for a text editor. If I weren’t married, I probably would have launched myself at my monitor after working with Komodo Edit for a day. It has everything I want in an IDE (circa this instant - I’m fickle). Again, I was up and running in the amount of time it takes to say holy crap my download speed at work is attrocious x 118. Komodo Edit is a little heavier (~38MB), but still not bad. I’m going to shelve NetBeans and check back in on it the next time I’m IDE hunting. As I do a lot of JS work, this is a pretty big issue for me, but one I imagine they’ll fix relatively soon - 6.5 is a very new release. Sometimes just putting an extra space in would wake up the syntax checker and fix the problem, and sometimes it wouldn’t. NetBeans frequently got confused, labeling sections as errors when they weren’t. I use a lot of jQuery, and jQuery has a lot of nested brackets. My only real problem with NetBeans were some bugs in the JavaScript syntax checking. It’s lacking some advanced debugging features I found in PDT and Aptana on Eclipse, but I rarely used those features anyway. It’s responsive, and it never tried to outsmart me or covertly toss crap into files all over the place ( I’m looking at you Visual Studio). It’s intuitive enough that I could start working without going through any tutorials, which is an excellent sign. Overall, I think it’s a pretty impressive IDE. I gave NetBeans a solid day of work to get a feel for it. It didn’t take too long before I was ready to give it a whirl with a project I’m working on. ![]() It’s not really mature at this point, but it’s generally good enough to meet my needs as-is. Python support is still experimental, but it was easy enough to add. ![]() Start-up time for NetBeans is pretty good. Even with the attrocious download speeds I get at work, NetBeans arrived on my desktop fairly quickly. Eclipse flavors generally start at 100MB and go up from there, and Visual Studio comes on enough CD’s to tile you kitchen counter. That sounds heavy if you’re not a regular IDE user, but that’s actually very light. The first thing I noticed is the size - the PHP editor mix is a 26MB download. I was a little leary trying another Java based IDE so soon after Eclipse, but I’d read that with the 6.5 release it now supported scripting languages like PHP and Python, and the few Java developers I know seem to love the thing. I also just checked out Bespin today, so I’m including it too. And I’ve been using both a lot lately.įortunately, there have been some recent IDE releases that I wanted to check out: NetBeans and Komodo Edit. When I find I’m using gedit or Notepad++ more than my IDE, it’s time to dump my IDE. Enormous IDE’s tend to have a short life span with me. Besides, Eclipse is an enormous IDE, rivaling Visual Studio in that regard. I’m sure I could have fixed it, but I was starting to get that 6-month IDE itch anyway. ![]() Some recent updates caused a few important modules to start screaming bloody murder, however, souring me a bit. It stays out of my way and is generally well-behaved. It has to run on both Windows and Linux, and I’d greatly prefer it to be free and open source software. ), and is tailored for the things I do most - Python, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.** I’ll accept autocomplete functionality only if the autocomplete AI has reached near sentience and can take a hint when I start pounding on the keyboard. I generally like a simple, get-out-of-my-face IDE that’s snappy, handles a few niceties (project-level stuff, customizable syntax highlighting, syntax checking, code folding, etc. If you are like me, you’re always looking over your shoulder to see if there’s something else that would scratch your itch a little better.* You may like yours a whole lot, but there are always some little things here and there than make you want to tear your hair out. Unless you are a holy crusader in the Vim vs Emacs war, you are probably less than 100% satisfied with your code editor/IDE. On Code FOSS Code Editors NetBeans, Komodo Edit, and Bespin ![]()
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