Actually I have changed my opinion a bit after I tried Python IDLE. There should be more IDEs like it. It is only type of IDE I (can stand|like). At the moment of writing this message I am writing a webbrowser on python using urllib, smgllib and Tkinter and IDLE is just so fun to work with, but I still dislike “normal” IDEs.

For me coding *with* an IDE is like eating soup with a fork. On linux I always use Kate text editor with little terminal window running two shells(compile/link shell and test shell) on gnu screen. On OS X I tried Xcode but it had too much clutter and now I use Xterm running on X11.app with wwm and inside Xterm is running a gnu screen with 1-5 editor windows, make/compile/link shell and test shell. (I am also very sad that I can’t post using lynx)

I see “automatically rename my file and refactor all references in the code when I change the name of the class” as an annoyance, not a feature. I want complete control of my work. You only need a big IDE with Java because you have to move giant mountains of code around, thanks to Java’s excessive verbosity.

I’ll stick with Emacs. :-P