Sun, with ANY kind of documentation, is going to be a royal pain in the ass. Here, i'll give you a personal example.
One day, I picked up a SparcStation 1 at a surplus auction.
My experience was quite different. I was trying to get some Sun Xterminals (rather old; they were basically Sparcstation 2's without hard drives) booting and serving up displays from a Red Hat machine, instead of the aging Sparcserver we were about to retire.
We had support contracts with Sun for several machines, but not the Xterminals or the Sparcserver they booted from. I put in a request with Sun (via a web form) anyway. Within a few hours, someone at the local Sun office was on the phone to me. The next morning, I had a single copy of the manuals on my desk, via courier.
Any editor without intellisense-like functionality is a waste of time. Seriously.
When you say Intellisense I assume you're talking about Visual Studio's nifty little tooltips, since that's what the trademark refers to.
Personally, I think that vim's keyword completion is even niftier. If I have a variable called lpszLongNameForAStringVariable, when I want to type it in I just hit lpszLo^X^N. If there's more than one match for a previously typed word beginning with "lpszLo", I can keep hitting ^N to cycle through them.
Intellisense-like stuff would be nice, but I still find that vim makes for a more comfortable environment than VS.
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My experience was quite different. I was trying to get some Sun Xterminals (rather old; they were basically Sparcstation 2's without hard drives) booting and serving up displays from a Red Hat machine, instead of the aging Sparcserver we were about to retire.
We had support contracts with Sun for several machines, but not the Xterminals or the Sparcserver they booted from. I put in a request with Sun (via a web form) anyway. Within a few hours, someone at the local Sun office was on the phone to me. The next morning, I had a single copy of the manuals on my desk, via courier.
PS - there's a heap of stuff on docs.sun.com
FreeBSD-CURRENT isn't a distinct release, it's a branch in the CVS tree.
When you say Intellisense I assume you're talking about Visual Studio's nifty little tooltips, since that's what the trademark refers to.
Personally, I think that vim's keyword completion is even niftier. If I have a variable called lpszLongNameForAStringVariable, when I want to type it in I just hit lpszLo^X^N. If there's more than one match for a previously typed word beginning with "lpszLo", I can keep hitting ^N to cycle through them.
Intellisense-like stuff would be nice, but I still find that vim makes for a more comfortable environment than VS.
Like the incumbent founding directors?
*sigh*