Hi all,
I'm a Java et al coder who'd like to give emacs a shot. After 10+ years if
never really loving my development environment, I finally grasp what's
possible with emacs, and it seems that if I commit to it my IDE can be as
good as I feel like making it.
I have 3 main goals in the immediate future:
1) To make emacs a little friendlier for Java, C++, text, PHP, etc. In many
cases this means making it more like Textpad, which is my current choice
and is quite good off the shelf but of course isn't as flexible
2) To get my cash-strapped software team off of Textpad and using emacs
(this is quite related to 1), and then extending it for our needs
(JBoss/EJBs mostly)
3) To get good at this stuff and help out with the effort.
Right now, there are a couple of things preventing me from comfortably
coding in Java with emacs. One is file navigation; the other is control of
whitespace. For file navigation, I really miss good ol' Ctrl-Tab. KDE seems
to eat Ctrl-Tab, but if had some idea on how to make something similar
happen I'd be pleased. I seem to remember some help on this previously
(maybe on this list!), and as I recall some clever manipulation of the
buffer list is necessary for satisfactory results.
My problems with whitespace are that 1) I have no control over it -- I
don't ever want to hit Tab and have nothing happen, 2) I don't know how to
customize it, and 3) it looks like Emacs is not saving tabs as tabs (even
though I thought I told it to), so that I can't pleasantly edit files that
have been touched by Emacs.
I'm not looking for quick fixes / code samples here; I'm willing to do some
work, but I'm having a hard time getting started. By the way, Gnu sells a
"Introduction to Emacs Lisp Programming" (I think), that's only available
online. I can get by in Lisp, and I've read the online reference manual,
but it's a little dry.
Thanks all! These aren't JDE questions in some cases, but frankly in the
months I've been lurking, I've just been very impressed with the list.
Keep up the good work!
- C
- Re: Questions from a newguy Chris
- Re: Questions from a newguy Andrew Hyatt
- Questions from a newguy Paul Kinnucan