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Yesterday, I spent some time testing Eclipse with Ruby Development Tools (an Eclipse plugin that makes Eclipse a Ruby IDE). My advise: don't use it. RDT crippled the 39 kB source code of TPP down to about 25 kB. It couldn't correctly parse several classes in the source code, and so, they were simply deleted, it seems. Although Eclipse with RDT looks very nice to use, its (buggy) automatisms bear some real danger, like the loss of source code. I then switched back to good old vim, did the refactoring that I wanted to do within a few minutes, and was happy again. Probably tool-driven development isn't ready for Ruby yet.

As a side note, I released TPP 1.3 today. Download, extract and enjoy the new text and LaTeX output modes.

Update: If that all didn't quite make sense to you before, that's probably because I totally messed up the link to vim (thanks to Nico for pointing that out).