For many reasons I prefer Netbeans to Eclipse for a lot of my programming. Since it has added in proper php support, which is more polished than Eclipse’s php extension, it has become my default IDE at work too. Another thing that is nice is that the subversion integration is very well done. One thing that is nice is that it knows that you are actually using subversion (the existance of .svn files is a good clue Eclipse…), and it will install the subversion client for you if you don’t have it installed so that you can actually use subversion. Fancy. The Plugins link is under Tools… not say… the Help menu, a much better place for it me thinks…
One of my favourite features is the Show Annotations for subversion… that way you can blame people for what they have done, or atleast see what changes they have made since you last looked at the file. In Eclipse it opens up 3 windows and just doesn’t seem very intuitive to me… but when you open it up in Netbeans, it meerly adds them to the left of the text, all of the lines changed for a specific commit have the name of the author is coloured blue and the comment (there is a comment right?) is shown at the bottom of the current tab.
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