Re: [MLUG] Eclipse usage

[Rick <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Since Eclipse became the IDE of choice here, I installed it and have 
tried to use it several times with about the same conclusion as you. I 
have a hard time justifying the time to learn it when gvim works better 
for me.

However, I believe one of the functions that justifies it to the more 
development-oriented is the choice of plugins to expand functionality.

Rick

McIntosh Jason wrote:
> Ok, had to drop a line here to see if anyone else was using Eclipse.  Or 
> more for me, trying to use it.  The more I play with eclipse, the more 
> I'm coming to the conclusion that for MANY things it is so overly 
> complex as to be useless.  For example, I'm having a hard time imagining 
> I'd use any kind of visual editor in Eclipse.  That then begs the 
> question what would I use Eclipse for?  Additionally, it seems REALLY 
> ugly if I try and import external files, and trying to do a simple thing 
> of moving a visual component from an internal method to a class level 
> component (i.e. so other methods can reference that visual component) 
> seems near impossible.
>
> I still gotta ask - is there ANY reason, be it corporate environment or 
> home use, why I should use Eclipse over a simple Gvim, Gnome-Terminal, 
> Ant, Tomcat system?  (Or, emacs and kde-term or whatever combo of 
> editor/terminal you wish).
> Thanks,
> Jason

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