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Re: Eclipse Orion

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Post by vineet »

jasonkester wrote: post #13

Nice that they're trying, but it doesn't do even the basic stuff that the last crop of in-browser IDEs did. - open the page - click to the end of line 15 (inside the try, before the return) - hit ENTER Expected: caret goes to the same indent level as previous line Actual: caret goes to position zero - type "obj" - hit CTRL+SPACE Expected: At least be able to autocomplete symbols from the previous line. Actual: Render…

Rather than copying each feature of an IDE, I would they rather spend the time in focusing on what developers can benefit from in such a new architecture.

For example, rather than autocomplete, I would rather see support for codereview capabilities and being truly inside a server allows significantly improved team capabilities (think Microsoft Office vs Google Docs).

Re: Eclipse Orion

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Post by PetrolMan »

The idea is pretty interesting and I'm going to keep an eye on how this develops.

Moving an entire IDE online is a pretty huge task but there are some features that simply make more sense online. I personally would love to see some kind of active collaboration so that you can share code with someone who isn't in office with you. I'm thinking Google Docs style where it shows you where they are in the file and the changes they make as they make them.

The git support alone makes this a pretty useful tool for on the go development.

Re: Eclipse Orion

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Post by brazzy »

lazylland wrote: post #14
latch wrote: post #8

it's kinda neat..undo doesn't work (in chrome w/mac anyways). Can someone enlighten me with some practical purposes for these sorta things? My imagination isn't working.

So you're visiting your parents for Thanksgiving, and you get a call "LATCH! there's some issue with the thingamajig that we deployed before you left, urgent fixed required or the universe will ... be okay really; but could you please look into this ? I'll make it worth your while." The only tool you have at your disposal is your mom's ChromeBox, since you decided to "disconnect" for the holidays. But no fear ! You l…

you decided to "disconnect" for the holidays.

But no fear ! You log in to a familiar, already configured Orion workspace

Anyone else see the contradiction?

If you need to disturb people's holidays to have them firefight software problems, the manager manager needs to be fired for allowing such a knowledge bottleneck to form.

Re: Eclipse Orion

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Post by r00fus »

lordlarm wrote: post #7

tl;dr of 10 minutes video: - All code uploaded to their orion servers - Import of .zip files - git commit and diff functionality - Try your code with by running webserver username.orion.eclipse.org - Syntax highlighting (at least for js) - Use of JSLint for syntax navigation and error notification - Keyboard bindings as you know them from desktop applications - Handles huge files without any noticable delay (40000 li…

Thanks for the summary.

> - All code uploaded to their orion servers

Wow, this just isn't for me or almost any code I've worked on.

I'd like to know for whom this would be comfortable other than using pure-OSS projects.

Re: Eclipse Orion

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Post by spektom »

r00fus wrote: post #35
lordlarm wrote: post #7

tl;dr of 10 minutes video: - All code uploaded to their orion servers - Import of .zip files - git commit and diff functionality - Try your code with by running webserver username.orion.eclipse.org - Syntax highlighting (at least for js) - Use of JSLint for syntax navigation and error notification - Keyboard bindings as you know them from desktop applications - Handles huge files without any noticable delay (40000 li…

Thanks for the summary. > - All code uploaded to their orion servers Wow, this just isn't for me or almost any code I've worked on. I'd like to know for whom this would be comfortable other than using pure-OSS projects.

You can setup your own Orion server, if privacy is your concern: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion/How_Tos/Install_Orion_on_Local...
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