On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Olin Lathrop wr= ote: > Xiaofan Chen wrote: >>> Exactly, which is why Microchip should stay out of the editor >>> business. Provide hooks so it can run your editor of choice instead. >> >> You mentions "editor business". Indeed you can use whatever >> editor you want. But the IDE is more than an editor. Even you >> yourself have to use MPLAB IDE for your debugging, to use >> your ICE 2000 or whatever debugger you have. > > Right, but MPLAB includes a editor. =A0That's what I meant about Microchi= p > being in the editor business. =A0We will never know what better things th= ey > could have given us if they hadn't wasted time on a editor private to MPL= AB. Now they are not using a private editor with MPLAB X. They reuse the Netbean IDE which is a popular IDE (not as popular as Eclipse though). > Microchip needs to do the stuff that is special to PICs. =A0The more stuf= f > they do beyond that the more they are just reinventing the wheel. > With Netbean based MPLAB X, they can probably use more time to develop the features more specfic to PICs, and not wasting time on the older MPLAB code base. So this is a plus, even for you. --=20 Xiaofan --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .