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Because I wanted to apply some automated refactoring, I decided to give Eclipse a chance, after sticking with Vim for years. I tried other tools, but always fell back to Vim, because it just works very good for me.
Here’s some of the things I found:
- Creating a new project from an existing Ant build file works flawlessly.
- The look-and-feel is not exactly Mac-like, but the integrated window with panels inside are a lot more screenspace-efficient than the floating windows that typical Mac applications (e.g. Keynote) offer.
- Customizing Java code style preferences is intuitive and powerful.
- Keyboard shortcuts are properly converted to Ma-style (e.g. Shift-Cmd-L).
- The Save As command is not bound to the standard keybaord shortcut Shift-Cmd-S. Instead, this keyboard combo saves all files.
- Refactoring tools work very well.
- By default, the Javadoc for the JDK is not found, so hovering over a JavaSE class, such as java.lang.Object, does not show a description, but rather an error message. I would expect this to be standard functionality, perhaps offered as an option during installation or at least as a warning (e.g. “Unable to find Javadoc for JDK”).
- There does not seem to be a way to indent variable declarations like this:
int groupCount = groups.length;
int itemGroupSpacing = _config.getItemGroupSpacing();
- Code completion is more advanced than in Vim; the alternative for Ctrl-P in Vim seems to be Ctrl-Period in Eclipse, but Eclipse also offers Ctrl-Space.
- Cmd-P shows a Page Setup dialog, instead of a standard Print dialog.
- The About dialog is referenced both from the program menu and from the Help menu.
- Triple-click (with the left mouse button) does not select the whole line. This is a typical mouse shortcut with editors.
I tested Eclipse 3.2.1. The current version may be (even) better.
znerd 