> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garriss, Michael [mailto:Michael.Garriss / abacus-direct.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 10:27 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: The coolest thing since sliced bread
> 
> 
> > I've coded 2500 lines of Java in the last six days, and it
> > works.  The reason?
> > IntelliJ.  AFAIC, nothing could ever be a better text editor 
> > than Vim, and
> > IntelliJ doesn't come close.  But Vim doesn't understand 
> > Java.  IntelliJ does,
> > and it is 1000 times better at coding Java than Vim is.  
> > IntelliJ can do
> > very-high-level things - automatically include "import" 
> > statements, rename
> > classes, methods, variables (with all usages - and ONLY 
> > usages - renamed),
> > extract methods from blocks of code, create methods from 
> > usage, create iterator
> > templates, extract interfaces/superclasses from existing 
> > classes, inline a
> > method/variable, alert you to all kinds of errors, move 
> > classes to different
> > packages, handle CVS, ...
> 
> I would be nice to be able to "plug-in" the existing vim into 
> FreeRIDE. Many of the features you mentioned have already 
> been implemented as vim plug-ins (some written in RUBY!) and 
> are not the execlusive advatanages of IDE's over "editors".  
> I've handled CVS from vim for a long time. 
> 

Just wait and see what the project management system in FreeRIDE
becomes...CVS is the tip o' the iceburg.  I agree that many editors,
IDEs, etc have done this before.  We are doing this in Ruby...that's
all, but that differentiation over time will enable us to go places and
do things that are the envy of other development systems ;-)