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Chris Hills
Dave Vandervies said:It's not really about direct control, though that's part of it.
If you have an IDE that can share projects between three (or more!)
platforms and whose editor can be persuaded to act like vi, I want to
know about it
When you say cross platform do you mean target or host? Most will run
on Windows but few will run on other hosts. Though people inthe
embeded world tend to write on one host fro many targets.
Several companies will supply an IDE with their compilers that will give
you a single IDE that can at the click of a mouse target any one of 30
targets.
Most editors in IDE's will do the vi bindings.
If in fact "most" developers prefer not to use an IDE (a claim I believe
to be true, but not one I'm prepared to defend),
I think most use the IDE but like you not something I want to get in to
long arguments about. ( I am a tool distributor and I talk to 100's of
developers a year about tools also I meet lots of them at conferences
etc)
the biggest reason is
probably that most IDEs have weaknesses in areas that are important to
them that their favorite non-IDE tools don't have.
Not so these days. Also most IDEs automate many areas of a project.
(yes, I do work on three different platforms, and have at least one
hobby project that will eventually "need" to run on all three)
Fair enough.
Then you are probably not going to find an IDE for your work BTW which
3 platforms.