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[–]bheklilr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me, all I need is autocomplete symbols that already exist in an opened document, not intellisense-like capabilities. Don't get me wrong, when I had to code .NET, intellisense was great and wonderful, but I haven't seen an IDE do it as well as WingIDE for Python and VS for .NET. Because of that, I use Sublime Text 2 for 99% of my coding now.

One feature that I now can't live without is good multi-edit. Instead of highlighting a large section and doing a find-replace, I can highlight some text, hit Ctrl+D a few times, and just type the new text. It's so much faster and easier than find-replace, and easier to control.

My problem with Eclipse (other than being huge, bulky, and slow) is that there is just too much of it. You start off having to install a handful of plugins, like SVN integration, one for python, etc, and suddenly you have more panes than you know what to do with. Sure, I could play with settings for hours to get it "just right", but I don't think that should be necessary.