Item: For those of you who migrated from Emacs, you can easily teach
NetBeans control-F/B/N/P/U/D: go to Tools - Options - Editor
Settings - Global Key Bindings. Huge time-saver, and this should be the
default on OS X, since basically every other text control has those bindings
wired in.
Item: I upgraded all at once to OS X
1.4, and Java
1.5, and NB 4.1 (from a release candidate), and a lot of JXTA libraries, and
things are slowing down. I don’t like this; in particular I hit control-space
for autocomplete or F9 for compile and it sometimes has to think for a second
first, which is nuts.
[Update: Fixed it! I had stupidly put all the support libraries that JXTA
needs to run into the compile-time list, so they were going on the classpath.
Take ’em all out and it’s back to nearly instant.]
Item:
Project Coyote is coming along
nicely, and it’s increasingly obvious that
dynamic languages on the JVM are going to be huge.
Item:
NetBeans
Day at Java One looks like it’ll be serious fun.
Item: (This is not NB-specific.) When I go grab a new API, it’s just
way too much work to tell the IDE about it and get the jars and Javadocs in
place.
There ought to be a standard way to package a Java API so that you can point
your IDE at some URI and it All. Just. Happens.
Item: Here’s a nice feature, does any IDE have it? When I say
Ziggarut z = new Ziggarut(bricks, stones);
then the IDE should figure out that that’s a
com.textuality.3d.Ziggarut and insert the appropriate
import statements for me, it’s a total waste of time for me to go
poking around trying to remember where that was.
[Oops: NetBeans has “Fix imports”, Eclipse is pro-active about suggesting
it, and the IDEA cult assured me (as usual) that they have something even
better.]
