(referring to the info that pops up for functions, showing their description, parameters, and return value etc)Ĭode templates are available in almost any modern IDE nowadays. What about docblocks? You don't even get the advantage of that with text editors.

A Textmate user would have to manually scan a file. If he didn't have that, he would flip to the source file he knows it's in and look at the navigation tree, which shows the class name and all of its methods. Really, it's a lifesaver.What do you do if you need to reference a public method in a class that you don't know the name of, but would know it if you seen it? An IDE user would use autocompletion. When a Textmate user has to search their project to find out where a class or function is defined, I just ctrl+click it. They're just giving you some generic, helpful things like snippets and handy keyboard shortcuts.Įvery time someone using Textmate has to look at the docs for their programming language because they can't remember a function name or the parameter order, I just hit autocomplete. You know, I've never understood why people use text editors instead of IDEs, especially in the ruby world.

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