Do you write html in notepad?

[Xav]

What do you mean by allowing you to "skip across the parameter list"?

[chili5]

Yeah I didn't really understand either but I guess he means that you can tab through the intellisense menu?

[Xav]

But you can do that with the up/down arroy keys.

[chili5]

Yeah exactly so I don't know Maybe G_morgan will explain what he meant by tabbing through intellisense?

[Xav]

Helllooo? G_Morgan? Guru-buddy?

[DevilsCharm]

Intellisense? That's a Microsoft application right?

[Xav]

Not an application - it's those handy lists that pop up whenever you type things. They were known as AutoLists in older IDEs.

[G_Morgan]

What I mean by skip across the parameter list is that, once you have selected and entered the appropriate function, Netbeans will highlight the first parameter of that function so you can replace it with your argument. If you then hit tab Netbeans will jump to and highlight the second variable. At the last variable a tab will return you to the first variable. It allows you to avoid the messy manual jumping around brackets and commas that I find far more frustrating than remembering function names. It also works if you hit the comma key. It will skip past the comma key in front and highlight the argument for editing.

It does a lot of neat little stuff like that. Another one it does is automatically closing brackets for you. It is intelligent enough so if you then write the closing bracket it will realise that it is the same bracket it automatically created and simply skip past it.

Of course this isn't the main reason for liking Netbeans. It's primary advantage (for C/C++ at least) is integrating with a CLI based build system in a sensible manner so I can get the best of both worlds. I end up frustrated hitting the same 10 button sequence continuously in normal IDE's for what would be a single make rule written once and bound to an Emacs key stroke with a CLI based system.

[elvenrunelord]

My coding skills are not go enough to use notepad and quite frankly I have to much going on in my life to devote to developing that skill. In theend as long as the job gets done I'm happy

[F0551L]

I use notepad when i carry my script around with me on my flash drive. I prefer Dreamweaver only when you use it for XHTML or PHP because I am anti WYSIWYG. The reasoning for that is becuase i belive that WYSIWYG takes away from being able to code by yourself. Click and drag software does not belong in coding. If you are going to use a WYSIWYG then you might as well just go to freeboards.com.