You can't change the background color of the Java editing pane. Sounds silly, but important to me.
It has a cool feature of saving your recent changes. You can go back and diff the current file with all the changes you have saved and insert a previous change on a per-method basis, for example. Way better than unlimited undos, which a lot of editors have. Kind of a mini-source control available for those "oh shit" moments of deletion. You can set how long previous changes are saved. Neato.
Appending the classpath was unintuitive. I had to add a variable in a pref somewhere and then reference it in my.classpath file in the project. WTF?
The views were very cool. You could switch among different views of your project at the click of a button. But I couldn't get the font small enough for my liking.
Only one real refactoring tool, extract method, is available. I can't remember if I got it to work or not.
But, in the end, I am going to spend actual $$ for Idea's IntelliJ - http://www.intellij.com. It's only $200 until 1/10. This is truly the Java editor of the gods.
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You can't change the background color of the Java editing pane. Sounds silly, but important to me.
.classpath file in the project. WTF?
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It has a cool feature of saving your recent changes. You can go back and diff the current file with all the changes you have saved and insert a previous change on a per-method basis, for example. Way better than unlimited undos, which a lot of editors have. Kind of a mini-source control available for those "oh shit" moments of deletion. You can set how long previous changes are saved. Neato.
Appending the classpath was unintuitive. I had to add a variable in a pref somewhere and then reference it in my
The views were very cool. You could switch among different views of your project at the click of a button. But I couldn't get the font small enough for my liking.
Only one real refactoring tool, extract method, is available. I can't remember if I got it to work or not.
But, in the end, I am going to spend actual $$ for Idea's IntelliJ - http://www.intellij.com. It's only $200 until 1/10. This is truly the Java editor of the gods.
Try it, you'll see. (I don't work for em.)
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