Tuesday 3 March 2009

Noooo, an Aptana weakness!

Well, I hate to say it, but I think I have found a bit of an issue with the otherwise amazing Aptana.

I have recently been working on a quite complicated JavaScript/jQuery project, and trying to keep myself organised, I have tried to make use of Aptana's Bookmarks and Tasks functionality. The problem is, that you spend time bookmarking functions etc, and meticulously adding tasks as they arise, hoping to keep everything under control and within easy reach, then, if you use CTRL+SHIFT+F keyboard shortcut to format your code, it leaves your Tasks and Bookmarks in disarray if you're lucky, and if you are unlucky, they just disappear. You also lose your Tasks and Bookmarks if you edit the .js file with any other editor. Not good.

In my opinion, this is a fairly major issue. What's the point of taking the time to add bookmarks and tasks if they're not persistent? It's got to the point now where I've gone back to using Outlook for handling my task list. Arrgh!

If anyone else has seen this and found a fix, please let me know.