Ultra Lightweight IDE to edit Groovy/GSP

This is what it looks like.


Tired of bulky IDE's draining out your computer.

Gedit can turn out to be a lovely IDE with the bare essentials we need.
(Basically syntax highlighting and the file browser pane)

Here's what I configured.

• Groovy/GSP syntax highlighting for Gedit.

An excellent tutorial explains this at http://noor.ojuba.org/2008/06/gedit-with-groovy/

• Enable the File Browser Plugin in Gedit in Preferences>Plugins

Heres a screen shot of what it all looks like.


This plus the usual grails commands
as per

http://grails.org/Quick+Start

make developing grails apps a breeze even on lower end PC's.