Hi Andreas, hi everyone,
Since XQDT works under Eclipse 3.7 and offers parentheses matching [...]
that's an important point of course. I would generally interested what tools you (all) prefer to develop applications with BaseX, XQuery and XML.
As you may know, the embedded BaseX editor can be used to process XQuery, XML and any other types of text documents. It know various powerful hotkeys [1] that are not documented in the GUI. It provides direct feedback on parsing errors in the edited and imported modules. The latest snapshot [2] also parses XML documents and command scripts and, since this weekend, offers a much more powerful facility for incrementally searching and replacing strings (incl. support for regular expressions).
Enough of the self-adulation… We're well aware that it would be a waste of time if we seriously tried to cope with existing text editors and IDEs, such as..
• Eclipse w/XQDT • oXygen • vim, Emacs, etc.
..so we’d like to know what are your favorite editors for writing XQuery expressions and applications, and what convinces, or deters you, mostly from using the built-in editor or the alternatives?
Thanks in advance for your opinion, Christian
[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Shortcuts#Editor_Shortcuts [2] http://files.basex.org/releases/latest/