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Well, mine is Emacs. > What are the features of your IDE that you think separate it from the rest? What can you not live with out. Extensibility. I can live without any other built-in features, because I can always write them myself in short order. Imagine a programming language in which you can't write your own functions. You wouldn't want to use that, would you?
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Yeah, "learn to use vim properly" has been on my TODO list for about 15 years now. It's probably time I did something about it.
This Vim game helped me more than anything I'd seen in ~5 years: http://vim-adventures.com
Smart and fast definition and reference lookups. That's all I really need but it's surprising how many IDEs are broken in this aspect.
- An editor that can show different line-endings (cr/lf) and it must be possible to between them (nice to have - switching that independently for each open file).
- Text search per file, per project and per solution.
Nice to have:
- Correct syntax highlighting
- Find definitions/declarations in c++ code correctly
- Free software
- Cross platform support
- Support for different compilers
- Show potential compile errors already on typing (in VS since 2010 I think, that feature alone made me use VS again more regularly)
- Debugger with the features of VS (fast, most useful data shown automatically or with mouse-over, easy to edit values, easy to copy&paste parameters + values + stack, easy to add watches with right-click, remembers breakpoints&watches&active windows between debug sessions, comfortable conditional breakpoints and watches)
- Nice support for disassembler (stuff like showing c++ and it's asm code mixed)
- Locking window layouts (missing that in VS where I mess up my layout by dragging windows accidentally all the time)
- Configuration files that don't cause troubles when working in teams (troubles I've seen with IDE's in the past had been user-specific settings being in project-files and path-settings not written in a OS independent way so each time someone checked in from another all paths got changed again)
- Allow putting project files in any place independent of where the sources are (seen that one several times - IDE's that insisted of placing their project files in the root of the project)
- Plugin-support
Discoverability. I want to be able to download a library (through whatever means), and then figure out how to use it from within my code. I want to be able to type the name of a class, object, namespace, whatever the language has for that, that corresponds to the name of said library and then just play with it. I want docs for every method and class (or function, object, whatever) that I enter, in a tooltip, at my fi…
Oh gosh, I agree so very very much. Sadly, for the dynamic languages I program in most, few IDEs handle this correctly. Komodo is the closest, and even it chokes on some more advanced stuff (like IoC containers and the like, though i can get around it with annotations in the comments). Edit: oh by the way, SublimeCodeIntel? It's a port of Komodo's CodeIntel library. I switched to Sublime entirely for a while, but bit…