I like the way SAP has put in some efforts to explain ABAP in Eclipse (AIE) IDE as a tool for ABAP development.
The feature explorer view helps as a good onboarding tool for developers to understand the new shortcut keys (or hotkeys if you want to call it)..
I have ABAP for Eclipse - HANA development installed. For clarity, I would like to provide the version installed.
ABAP has been my favourite programming language since 1998-99. It is simple and offers great debugging capabilities.
I'm sure, it is really a challenge for SAP to bring in similar features in AIE, but I'm sure it is a question of time.
I do like some of the featuers of AIE (ABAP in Eclipse) that has meant to be consistent or similar to using (se38/se37)
SAP GUI development.
the F3 to go back is just great, but there are of course lot of other features that I wish
the AIE has to bring in. To simply put this, there are many points it has brought in
to provide a seamless experience for the existing ABAP developers, which I beleive is
critical. Although I see the direction is headed towards that point.
The "Where-used" is one great feature I love it.
It does provide the inline code completion feature, which is again great.
I want to still check few things when we write inline enhancements (ENHO objects ). It (inline enhancements) is
bit tricky though here in AIE, but I need to spend more time there yet.
Having said, there is a lot of room for SAP to look at simplifying the tool further, providing the motivation for new
(and existing) developers to use more AIE for development.
Enjoy the AIE !!!
Bluesky