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... and where is the line between IDE and editor?

There are so many threads asking for IDEs and comparing apples and oranges ...

What are possible¹ criteria?

just a brainstorm

Editor

  • Syntax-highlighting
  • Tab-expansion of variables
  • Outlining ( aka Folding)
  • Narrowing
  • code-snippets/templates
  • Search/Replace (Incremental, RegEx, Multifile)
  • Macros
  • multiple subwindows
  • X and/or Terminal
  • keybindings
  • hypertext

IDE

  • Turnaround / Jump to Error
  • Debugger integration
  • REPL integration
  • Support for Revision control (CVS,GIT,...)
  • Diff support
  • RegEx Editor
  • Refactoring
  • Flymake (syntax check on the fly)
  • Project support (dependent management of all settings)
  • Browser-subwindows
  • Perldoc support
  • Inline display of own method/function documentation
  • Tab expansion of methods (Intellisense)

(to be extended...please help)

Cheers Rolf

UPDATES: Adding updates from the discussion as italics

(1) of course there is no objective fixed set of criterias, my aim is to get the possible directions/dimensions for evaluating IDEs. For further clarification see this post


In reply to What are the criterias of a "good" Perl IDE? by LanX

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