I've spent a couple of weeks messing around with Lasso Studio for
Eclipse, in general I'm finding it comes up short of my expectations,
but perhaps I'm just doing something wrong, if so, please feel free
to point me in the right direction.

The editing interface is ok, but generally I don't feel that it's
anything like as good as BBEdit, even the older "light" versions seem
to be much more powerful text editors. Basic things that seem to be
missing are auto-wrapping of long lines and changing the indent on a
selection of lines simultaneously. For a Mac user the general editing
key commands seem very unfamiliar too. I'm also seeing a fair amount
of editing errors, like I copy something, but when I paste it's
actually the previous item I copied (ie the copy didn't happen).

Using the built in HTML viewer seems to be very constrained too. In
the sense that using "Run" doesn't seem to allow the input of
parameters, and you can't enter these into the location area above
the viewer either, ie, you can't key into this area like this:

/localhost/project/page.html?hello=world&name=bob

Loading HTML in this way also seems very slow. It can literally take
several minutes to load a page that takes a couple of seconds to load
in Safari. Tabbing between the browser and source view here often
shown completely different pages!?

If I try to run Debug it almost immediately declares "Suspended", if
I try to resume it just says "Pending", and nothing further happens.
If I try to see what variables have been declared (before resuming) I
get an error that the "children of the process couldn't be revealed"
or similar.

I seem to have to quit and restart Eclipse 3-4 times each day, where
it just stops responding to commands. Right now it's crashed and
won't start again (double-click and nothing happens at all).

I'd estimate my productivity is down to around 10% of normal levels.

I'm using a 867MHz G4 PowerBook and 10.4.2 if that makes any difference.


-- Clive

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