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Revving Up The Motor IDE
Konstantin Klyagin points to this article on FreeOS.com on the current state of Klyagin's Motor IDE. While he says it "can easily be considered a status report," this is certainly more comprehensive and readable than the context-free bulleted lists which seem to accompany many software releases, and gives a good overview of Motor. Any users care to comment on Motor's useability compared to other IDEs?
The brief update mentioned nice features, and the screenshots on the webpage looked ok, but there was no info on how it performs as an editor.
Can it open multiple files at once? Can it display multiple files on screen? Can it display multiple parts of the same file at the same time? (That's something I use a lot when programming, checking definitions of one thing or another.) Can it show where something was defined, or what calls this function? Can it operate in multiple windows or consoles and not stomp on its other instances? Does it have regexp search and replace? What are the max file sizes it can handle? Does it have syntax highlighting or autoindentation? If so, for what languages? Is there an extension language, or does adding capabilities require recompiling it? Can you use an external editor with it?
These are just a couple things I'd like to see answers to....
Motor looks like a well thought out IDE with lots of handy features. It seems like it is "the way it should be done." My only criticism is the antiquated text mode. I'm not trying to start a holy war. I'm just curious. Why text mode? Why not X-windows, or even KDE or Gnome? Why not one of the various multiplatform window kits? Obviously lots of people out there still use text mode development and I'm wondering why. (Personally, you'll have to pry my xemacs out of my dead hands before I'll switch IDE's)
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