Timeline for What counts as an IDE?
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| Oct 16, 2012 at 19:21 | comment | added | user8709 | Although you said "Environment: Means both of the above are available from the same tool" you didn't define tool. This is significant because some people would argue that Linux as a whole is an IDE. However, I don't know any OS that in itself allows you to jump directly to errors in the editor - that's still an IDE-only trick AFAIK. | |
| Mar 5, 2011 at 3:58 | comment | added | Ken | Emacs, at least, comes with compilation, debugging, and syntax highlighting modes. Yes, they're defined in Lisp functions, not C code linked to the emacs binary, but then, that's its architecture: so are such basic things as "open a file". :-) | |
| Sep 26, 2010 at 21:27 | vote | accept | Matt Ellen | ||
| Sep 23, 2010 at 14:08 | comment | added | Julius A | It is worth noting that IDE allows support for plugins for tools like code re-factoring, Re-sharper... | |
| Sep 23, 2010 at 12:29 | comment | added | Murph | Interestingly I just pulled out my Turbo Pascal manual (for the original IDE) and there's no debug... but yes, now, as a minimum edit, compile, run, debug. | |
| Sep 23, 2010 at 12:15 | comment | added | David_001 | By themselves vim and emacs are just fancy text editors, but if plugins mean you get syntax highlighting, compile & debug features, then as a package I don't see why they wouldn't be considered IDEs. (Clearly, without plugins they're just fancy text editors for sadists). | |
| Sep 23, 2010 at 12:07 | comment | added | Matt Ellen | Then I'd agree that, when used in conjunction with such plugins, they are IDEs. | |
| Sep 23, 2010 at 11:54 | comment | added | Chinmay Kanchi | That definition makes Vim and emacs IDEs, since they are seldom used for development without plugins that give them all (or most) of these features. | |
| Sep 23, 2010 at 8:49 | comment | added | Matt Ellen | That's a good point. Notepad++ doesn't fully integrate with any language by its self, however it allows for compilation, launch and debugging by use of plug-ins. To me it seems like it might be a full IDE at that point. | |
| Sep 23, 2010 at 8:39 | history | answered | David_001 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |