J__rgen Nicklisch-Franken
So I please the members of the community to pause for a moment and try out Leksah with a benevolent attitude.
I did (the previous version, tbh), and couldn't find anything to seriously bicker about... a few problems regarding metadata generation, but that was dealt with as soon as I RTFM'ed. Ah, yes, you shouldn't be able to close the toolbar by pressing on one of its buttons that incidentally looks just like the one to close a file. Completition already rocks, the interface is nicely configurable (although I resorted to editing config and session files instead of using gui commands[1]), project management worked out fine (after I figured out that I had to manually configure leksah to pass --user to cabal), all in all it's an impressive piece of code that radiates later uberness instead of lacking features. Last, but not least, it's _fast_, _waaaaaaaaay_ more zappy than eclipse. As far as basic IDE features are concerned, it's also complete. The one thing that keeps me from switching to it, right now, is the editor not being a vi. While gtksourceview might be, in theory, a usable editor, my muscle memory tells me otherwise. It'd be like switching to autoconf for C development instead of just copying over my beloved OMakefile. Providing refactoring support would make it irresistible... maybe it's time to add a plugin layer, so that things like vacuum or a wrapper around hp2ps can register themselves with leksah, without giving up their identity as stand-alone projects. Plugability is the one feature that made eclipse big, and it won't hurt leksah, either. [1] I utterly failed to figure out how to do stuff[2], seriously. Eclipse has a really nice drag&drop interface with visual feedback to rearrange stuff, but I'm not the kind of guy who drops a program for lacking such bells&whistles. [2] "Stuff" being rearranging divisions such that it's first split horizontally, the console/type view etc. taking up the bottom part and the upper part being split vertically into source view/module browser. I just can't stand wrapped lines on the console. Somehow, I think it should be the default arrangement. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, performance and/or quoting of this signature prohibited.