... 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)
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
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