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Re: [eclipse.org-architecture-council] Eclipse vs Vi vs Sublime
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On 16 Mar 2016, at 9:38, Mickael Istria wrote:
On 03/16/2016 09:04 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
I think you'll be surprised how that simple thing keeps people going
back to emacs/vi because it is easily accessible.
I'm not surprised at all, and I('ll) keep using vim for this reason.
But is it really a challenge where Eclipse IDE can succeed?
vim and Emacs are popular on Linux, used widely because they are in
the PATH and accessible easily via yum, apt-get, you-name-it. So one
can type "vim file.txt" in a console and get immediately vim installed
and opening the "file.txt". What is it for Eclipse IDE?
Exactly the same is today supposed to work if you put eclipse into your
path.
Does Oomph installer make it available in the path? Which Linux
distros package Eclipse IDE correctly enough to have a recent version
of Eclipse installed on command-line invocation (only Fedora I'd say)?
This is something eclipse itself could do.
For Windows users, they often get to Notepad++ because it's available
on right-click (here again, it's an OS thing given by the installer).
Does Eclipse IDE populate that accessible menu?
Yes it does if you choose it as the app to use.
If we want the same level of accessibility, the first step isn't to
improve the IDE, it's to integrate it better with the OS: make it part
of the PATH and make it populate the OS "Open With" menus.
You are doing step 2 now. Step 1 is to make it work - and I claim it is
99% there.
That said, I'd like to repeat that I'm all in favor of improving the
workflow of opening a single file with the IDE, it's just that I have
the impression that the cornerstone of this use-case is integration in
the various OS (tricky thing) rather than improvements inside the IDE
itself.
It is not a tricky thing once eclipse actually behaves sanely when it is
in path and on the app.
It is something you can do from within eclipse, just like your web
browser checks if it is the default browser or what aquamacs does to
check it installs a cli launcher.
/max
http://about.me/maxandersen
