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>>quanti+(OP)
I don't do a whole lot of software (got caught up on the hardware side of things), but one thing I'm noticing is that nobody makes extensive use of "advanced" IDE features as in eclipse or visual Studio.

Is this personal taste, or has it to do with the scope of the projects these guys are working on?

>>henghe+D3
For me, IDEs are great for when I have to do boilerplate coding. But when I switch to real business logic I use an editor like vi or sublime. Anything more impedes my thinking and gets in my way.

>>JustSo+M6
I'm guessing you're probably not writing unit test or use code coverage plugins or running static code analysis to provide feedback incrementally and quickly?

>>edwinn+37
What has any of those things to do with someone's choice of editor?

>>aarone+a9
I take it you've never used those IDE with the plugins to support the workflow I mentioned above...

>>edwinn+wd
Well, it depends on what you mean, I suppose. I've integrated Emacs with tools like those, so that I can (for example) get linting feedback on code in real time, or jump to locations from a unit test failure report. But I've never written unit tests, or used coverage or static analysis tools, that depended on Emacs, or indeed on any other editor. I've never even seen that kind of tight coupling, much less perpetrated it myself. I'm not sure whether that's what you're talking about, or whether it only sounds like that's what you're talking about, but I hope it's the latter.

>>aarone+ne
There are 2 workflows here:

1. the ability to run everything (a.k.a the whole project) using the preferred SCM (or build tools)

for example: mvn clean install

where your pom.xml already set to have cobertura (code coverage), checkstyle/pmd (linting/style/formatting), and findbugs (static code analysis)

2. the ability to run a very specific unit-test somewhere deep down in your project via your IDE as you're writing code (the IDE compiles your code on the fly...) and get everything I mentioned above :)

for example: I want to run one new unit-test for a new code => I don't have to drop to my console/command-line/terminal to run mvn clean install. I just go to my unit-test, highlight the method name, run it through eclipse/intellij and I get everything.