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by jasonkester 5499 days ago
Nice that they're trying, but it doesn't do even the basic stuff that the last crop of in-browser IDEs did.

  - open the page
  - click to the end of line 15 (inside the try, before the return)
  - hit ENTER

  Expected: caret goes to the same indent level as previous line
  Actual: caret goes to position zero


  - type "obj"
  - hit CTRL+SPACE

  Expected: At least be able to autocomplete symbols from the previous line.
  Actual: Renders a SPACE
In its current form, it's pretty much a TEXTAREA with syntax highlighting. To me, that says they released this to the public way too early. I think I'll check back in next year.
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nl 5499 days ago
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion/Getting_Started_with_Orion#CSS... shows autocomplete working (for CSS).

I'm not sure why it isn't turned on for the demo though.

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vineet 5499 days ago
Rather than copying each feature of an IDE, I would they rather spend the time in focusing on what developers can benefit from in such a new architecture.

For example, rather than autocomplete, I would rather see support for codereview capabilities and being truly inside a server allows significantly improved team capabilities (think Microsoft Office vs Google Docs).

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Sandman 5499 days ago
As far as I can see, the project is currently in early incubation phase, so no, it should definitely not be considered ready for actual development. They even say so themselves in the FAQ: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion/FAQ#Can_Orion_be_used_for_real...
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hmottestad 5499 days ago
Yep. No "auto-tab" as such in Safari, Firefox or Chrome on mac. However the video does show that the feature is there. At the moment it's essentially ms notepad with highlighting. However I've always wanted a development environment in my browser...so keep up the good work :)
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