On 2010-10-02 15:29, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Olin Lathrop = wrote: >> 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. That's what I meant about Microchip >> being in the editor business. We will never know what better things the= y >> could have given us if they hadn't wasted time on a editor private to MP= LAB. > > 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). That explains the page called "Why not Eclipse?" in the MPLAB X slideshow... :-) --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .