Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

SlickEdit is Nice for JavaScript, Too

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Dec 11, 20071 min

I've mentioned before that I like SlickEdit for editing C++ code, because it's the only tool I've found that can reliably refactor C++. In the last couple of days I have found that it's also a really nice tool for editing JavaScript, both server-side ASP JavaScript and client-side JavaScript. Most of the other programming and Web design tools I use treat JavaScript as so much plain text. I was very pleasantly su

Most of the other programming and Web design tools I use treat JavaScript as so much plain text. I was very pleasantly surprised to find that SlickEdit’s tagging gives me reasonably good word completion and function parameter information, even when the code is being tied together with server-side includes. The dynamic preview that shows me the definition of a function in another window when I’m working on a call to that function helps as well.

Of course, I want more. It’s too bad that SlickEdit can’t offer anything in the way of page design, and can’t seem to work directly with files on sites that use the FrontPage extensions.

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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