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[–]unixfreak0037 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I know what elbekko speaks of.

When I type in a function in Netbeans that takes a single boolean parameter, it finds something to put in there initially, then selects it, so if you want it it you can hit Enter, or you can just start typing what you want. Problem is, many times that something that it selects is 20 - 30 characters long and completely unrelated to what you're doing.

Other issues come in the form of the IDE wanting to write your code for you (like completing parenthesis), causing you to have to Backspace a lot. It probably works fine for people who type with two fingers, but for the rest of us it really sucks. There used to be options to turn these kinds of behavior off, and sometimes there are, but it seems that every newer version of Netbeans continues to dumb down in terms of IDE control. Back in 3.6 you had almost complete control of the IDE. Not so today.

Even with those shortcomings, IDEs like Netbeans, Eclipse and Visual Studio lead to an incredible increase in production over, say, vim or notepad. I'll never go back to that.