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Original Post: Again in the eclipse hell
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From time to time i have to use Eclipse or the IBM commercial counterparts of eclipse because of customer needs or because of onsite projects. Nothing new so far and i thought i have ranted enough about that software but today i just discovered one more really weird thing. This is most likely the basic stuff you can expect from any kind of editor on this planet.
Lets say you write some lines like this:
// this is a comment
System.out.println("foo");
System.out.println("foo");
Now you think: "Damn, this comment line should be aligned to the other lines". There is the auto-format hotkey and there is the manual way. So when using the manual way, i go somewhere on this line (most likely its in the middle or something) and hit "POS1" key. What do you think, where does the user wants the cursor to be? I think the user wants the cursor in front of the slashes, but not so in Eclipse 3.0 (or what is behind Rational Web Developer 6), this soft places the cursor after the slashes. No way of quick tabbing for the correct alignment.
I know, its only a minor issue but it shows once again how bad this editor is. I dont speak of the IDE in general but the editor is crap. I could count some more of those "little gripes" i have with it, but hey, we are in the soccer world-cup semi-final. I am willing to ignore all of these nasty issues during the world-cup championship. So lets destroy Italy instead of programming software. hrhr.
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