The best Javascript editor so far

I'm always looking out for better Javascript editors, and I now have a new favorite: JSEclipse. Check this out:

JSEditor appears to have an ESP layer that I've not worked out yet. This ESP layer enables it to give you completions that ought not to be possible.

Scarey

 

I have no idea how it can work out what the members of employee are since employee is an object that is dynamically generated by DWR, and the JavaScript file we are editing has no mention of even the path to the DWR server. (Maybe it's working it out by how employee is used? Either way it is fairly fancy)

Another example of it grokking Javascript much better than the Eclipse WTP Javascript editor is how it understands prototype.js. Sam doesn't hold back from exploiting Javascript features, and JSEclipse keeps up with him better than any other Javascript tool I've seen:

The outline right shows it correctly finding the things that prototype.js declares. The WTP editor makes a right mess of this.

Update: It appears to work based on usage - it remembers how an object is used and completes based on that.

 

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