Best IDE for protocol plugin

[Michael Rozdoba]

Ethan Blanton wrote:
> Francois Botha spake unto us the following wisdom:
>>> Of course, that wasn't your question at all :) I'd recommend using vim 
>>> (which isn't an IDE).
>> Thanks, I was afraid of this.  I'm just too used to autocompletion :)
> 
> It is a popular misconception among IDE users that programmers' editor
> features which have been around for many years, but have only recently
> showed up in IDEs, were invented for IDEs.  I am sure vim can do some
> sort of autocompletion, and Emacs has *several* completion modes.

But of course. http://vim.sourceforge.net/tips/tip.php?tip_id=91 by way 
of one of many examples.

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Michael Rozdoba