http://blog.xcski.com/2008/06/04/eclipse Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:41:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://blog.xcski.com/2008/06/04/eclipse/comment-page-1#comment-93051 Anthony de Boer Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:34:14 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/?p=1367#comment-93051 After a couple of months at the new gig, which loves Eclipse in which to do C++, I'm still not happy. I know vi and cvs and I'm fast on the commandline after a couple of decades there. Eclipse suffers from gooey syndrome, where if you navigate down the right one of the myriads of menu options you can eventually find the place where it lets you do the things the designers anticipated you might need to do, but that multiplicity is intimidating and the learning curve is a serious time-sink. Something that used to take a dozen keystrokes now takes a hundred mouse-movements and a matching hundred mouse-clicks to find and maybe a few side trips to the keyboard to fill in text boxes and a case of incipient carpal tunnel. I suppose the commandline intimidates the others worse, though. After a couple of months at the new gig, which loves Eclipse in which to do C++, I’m still not happy. I know vi and cvs and I’m fast on the commandline after a couple of decades there. Eclipse suffers from gooey syndrome, where if you navigate down the right one of the myriads of menu options you can eventually find the place where it lets you do the things the designers anticipated you might need to do, but that multiplicity is intimidating and the learning curve is a serious time-sink. Something that used to take a dozen keystrokes now takes a hundred mouse-movements and a matching hundred mouse-clicks to find and maybe a few side trips to the keyboard to fill in text boxes and a case of incipient carpal tunnel. I suppose the commandline intimidates the others worse, though.

]]> http://blog.xcski.com/2008/06/04/eclipse/comment-page-1#comment-93037 Jen Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:17:56 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/?p=1367#comment-93037 If I could embed vi into various applications, I would be a happy woman. There's <a href="http://www.corsofamily.net/jcorso/vi/" rel="nofollow">this</a>, but it never worked all that well for me and appears abandoned. If I could embed vi into various applications, I would be a happy woman. There’s this, but it never worked all that well for me and appears abandoned.

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