I have been stuck with a basically unusable Eclipse for over a month now due to the my use of the Dvorak keyboard layout and the latest 10.5.6 update. The problem is that the updates to the carbon framework broke keybindings for carbon based apps like Word, and Eclipse for anybody that that does not use a qwerty keyboard.
The last couple of weeks, Dan Shafer has been looking for the best php development environment for Mac and found Aptana Studio which is based on Eclipse. Since we both work in NOLOH, my ears pricked up, but I was not able to look at Aptana myself because it suffered from the same issues as regular Eclipse.
Anybody that knows me can guess what came next, and if you are still interested read on to see the solution that I found. continue reading…
