Contrib to old topics - why isn't Rev more popular?

[Garrett Hylltun]

On Feb 13, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:

> Garrett Hylltun wrote:
>
>>
>> One other thing.  The IDE in Rev kind of throws me off also, but  
>> I  believe it's due to myself having Attention Deficit Disorder.   
>> I can  easily work in an IDE that is simply and editor with a few  
>> buttons  and tools that I can open and close when needed, but with  
>> Rev, the  many open windows and lack of a main editor window where  
>> I can access  all the code of my project really throws me off.
>>
> You might want to look at Constellation.
> It's not quite "one big editor window" - but it does feature one  
> large window with multiple panes for different aspects of an IDE,  
> and multiple tabbed pages for editing different scripts.
>
> http://www.daniels-mara.com/products/

Yeah, bought that last year also.  At the time it made things worse  
for me.  But I haven't run it again yet, so maybe I should give it a  
try again.  :-)

>
>> In fact, it had thrown me so much that I just gave up on Rev last   
>> month.  But a few days I go I decided to give it one last try.   
>> This  time I'm getting along much better.  Maybe a break from it  
>> allowed me  to let the IDE sink in or something.
>>
> Oh - I give up on it every other month - but I always come  
> back :-) :-)

Maybe the trend I'm going to run into also.  ;-)

-Garrett