One of things it seems that people have some trouble getting used to when getting into Smalltalk development is the use of the browser (leave aside for the moment getting used image based development in general). I've seen a number of comments about the difficulty of seeing only one method at a time and not being able to scroll around an entire class.For myself, I actually prefer browser based development (I learned C++ programming writing MacApp applications and using MacBrowse). I find that my style is improved by the focusing ability of the browser's method editor.That said, the best of both worlds, in my opinion is the Whisker browser. Essentially what the Whisker browser does is create a dynamic stack of all of the methods you've selected in the method editing pane. It's as if Emacs split the window and automatically scrolled to the next method you've expressed an interest in.It's this behavior I miss most when I leave a Smalltalk image to go work in, for example, Eclipse. Naturally enough, someone could write a plugin to Eclipse to emulate the behavior. But until then...
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