... and where is the line between IDE and editor?

There are so many threads asking for IDEs and comparing apples and oranges ...

What are possible¹ criteria?

just a brainstorm

Editor

• Syntax-highlighting
• Tab-expansion of variables
• Outlining ( aka Folding)
• Narrowing
• code-snippets/templates
• Search/Replace (Incremental, RegEx, Multifile)
• Macros
• multiple subwindows
• X and/or Terminal
• keybindings
• hypertext

IDE

• Turnaround / Jump to Error
• Debugger integration
• REPL integration
• Support for Revision control (CVS,GIT,...)
• Diff support
• RegEx Editor
• Refactoring
• Flymake (syntax check on the fly)
• Project support (dependent management of all settings)
• Browser-subwindows
• Perldoc support
• Inline display of own method/function documentation
• Tab expansion of methods (Intellisense)

(to be extended...please help)

UPDATES: Adding updates from the discussion as italics

(1) of course there is no objective fixed set of criterias, my aim is to get the possible directions/dimensions for evaluating IDEs. For further clarification see this post

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