Noob question IDE's?

So what ide's are people using to create these mods? Looking at Auto-builder, how does the developer know what api. options are available to him (api.unit and api.selected are used) is he really digging through the code by hand to find out what's avaiable? Is there a decent documentation set (javadoc style?).

Appreciate any guidance for a craptastic java dev.

Any IDE you prefer.

Yes, everyone use code and there not so much API, everything listed in this file:
/media/ui/main/shared/js/pa_client_api.js

The API is completely undocumented, so we just have to read the code.

I think not every engine call is included in there.

I personally prefer Notepad++ for my IDE but really any text editor with code highlighting will work fine. We're happy to help new modders; just keep trying and asking questions!

eclipse and notepad++

So I managed to get eclipse to recognize/show options when typing api. but api.unit. is still a blank, womp womp. Was trying to modify the autoBuildMod to create a notification when I had a nuke available to be launched, but getIdleFactories() doesn't exactly allow you to pinpoint what type of factory you have selected. Tried using an if statement around createUnit(nuke, num, now) but createUnit simply overrides that queue position instead of trying and succeeding/failing it seems.

That's more than I have already, I never bothered how to set that up for javascript.