NetBeans 6.0 promises a usable editor

If there was one thing that drove me up the wall in my test of NetBeans, it was the code editor. It was nowhere near the quality of the Eclipse editor, and the NetBeans developers know that perfectly well.

Roumen assured me the editor should take a big step forward in version 6.0. If you want to know what’s being added, most of the features are documented with screenshots in the wiki’s Java Editor User Guide.

I’d rather wait until I can try it for myself. In the meantime I’ll stick with my souped-up Eclipse 3.2.