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Tue, 05 Apr 2005
Are Hippies all that's left?
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It seems that the Netbeans and Eclipse partisans are trading one ups over the inclusion of hippie-expansion in their text editors. I like hippie expansion -- I've been using it since my days as a grad student in the early 90's. However, I'm puzzled by the fuss over it. According to my copy of the Emacs Lisp sources, hippie-expansion has been around since at least 1992. Is it really such a great achievement to be incorporating this feature 8 or 13 years after it appears in Emacs? I'm being a little extreme here, but it seems crazy to be touting the appearance of hippie-expansion as some indicator of IDE prowess.
I agree with you, Ted - it is not so much about IDE prowess. It's been around for a long time. My blog entry just wanted to let people know that NetBeans has it (in case they had missed this feature) and a quick how to use it.
Cheers.
Charles
Posted by Charles Ditzel at Wed Apr 6 10:10:26 2005
Cheers.
Charles
Posted by Charles Ditzel at Wed Apr 6 10:10:26 2005
This is why IDEs are so damn annoying. Abbreviations and arbitrary expansion have been in vi/gvim for ages and are very valuable tools for any developer. Instead Eclipse wastes time with project files and a complicated plugin architecture and rejoices when they have syntax highlighting. Ugh. Get into the 1990s already...
Posted by Dave at Wed Apr 6 11:27:15 2005
Posted by Dave at Wed Apr 6 11:27:15 2005
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