[Novalug] IDE usage and putting comments in code

[Ben Creitz]

On 9/20/07, Doug Toppin <dougtoppin at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been thinking about this some more.  I'm not that sure that I
> could use vim for Java development.  With the layers of class
> definitions and methods that I'm using, autocompletion saves me a lot
> of time on the details and prevents making simple mistakes on camel
> cases (embedded upper/lower case in identifiers).  This is true
> particularly for the classes that I'm not "intimately" (so to speak)
> familiar with.  btw, I've seen an autocompletion plugin for vim
> somewhere.  I haven't tried it but it would be interesting to see.

I agree... the autocomplete (and the auto display of the API's
javadocs) is priceless.  I would be more likely to go the other
direction and search for an IDE that had optional vi keybindings.
Komodo does, but alas that doesn't do Java.

Ben