Re: Renaming Proposal

2001-07-18 Thread Karim Trott
May be I thinking too simple but isn't it feasable to invoke JMode by M-x j-mode ? Besides I love jde and would also contribute if you need to raise a fund for jde / jmode. Karim.

ANN: Name Change Plans

2001-07-18 Thread Paul Kinnucan
Hi All, Taking into consideration your feedback and on the advice of Richard Stallman, I have decided to accede to J.D. Edwards demand that I change the name of the JDE. I plan to send a letter notifying them of my decision tomorrow. I have decided to use JMode as the new name of the JDE

Re: Name Change Plans

2001-07-18 Thread William BC Crandall
I have decided to use JMode as the new name of the JDE because it has an Emacs flavor, is not trademarked in the U.S., and has received generally favorable comments from JDE users. Good choice. Good name. Path of least resistance; back to coding success. Congratulations, and good luck with

Re: Renaming Proposal

2001-07-18 Thread jesper
You wrote: At 01:48 PM 7/18/2001 +0200, Karim Trott wrote: May be I thinking too simple but isn't it feasable to invoke JMode by M-x j-mode ? Yes, one possibility is to replace jde- with j- in symbol names, on the analogy of c-mode. Another is jmode-. Thus, jde-global-classpath might

Re: Renaming Proposal

2001-07-18 Thread eric
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Kinnucan write s: : Yes, one possibility is to replace jde- with j- in symbol names, on the : analogy of c-mode. Another is jmode-. Thus, jde-global-classpath might : become j-global-classpath or jmode-global-classpath. I would very much prefer jmode- as a

RE: Go to definition/declaration of a identifier ?

2001-07-18 Thread Javier Lopez
Is there a method in JDE that could jump to the definition/declaration of a identifier ? Yes, M-x senator-jump or C-c , j This just work for global definitions/declarations Javier

convert multiple imports into .*

2001-07-18 Thread Max Rydahl Andersen
The jde-import-kill-extra-imports is great, but how about a option to collapse multiple imports from the same package to a .* import ? It should ofcourse be optional and there might be a jde-import-collapse-threshold that decided how many imports from the same package the file should have

Re: ANN: Name Change Plans

2001-07-18 Thread Stephane
You sure made a right choice Paul, I just can't stop thinking to the next JMode release :) Will we be transfered to the new mailing list's user list ? Stephane On Wednesday 18 July 2001 07:53, you wrote: Hi All, Taking into consideration your feedback and on the advice of Richard Stallman,

Re: ANN: Name Change Plans

2001-07-18 Thread Stephane
Contacting slashdot would be interesting 1- to let open source community know what has happened with this story. It seemes it 's not the last time trademark and patents will hit open source projects. 2- to get some advertising for the new name, to avoid loosing users. Steff On Wednesday 18

RE: jde-ant

2001-07-18 Thread Nick Sieger
Hi Douglas, This is also kind of a hack, but basically I advise the function `compile-internal' to put the value of `jde-global-classpath' in $CLASSPATH for the duration of the compilation. Has anyone else solved this problem of propagating jde-global-classpath to compiles more elegantly than

JDebug question

2001-07-18 Thread Alan Zall
What is the recomended way to debug servlets? I was just specifying the servlet engine as the application to be debugged and then setting breakpoints in my coe. However, this stopped working and I found that when I changed to using a port, it became too slow to work with. Should I change to use

Re: ANN: Name Change Plans

2001-07-18 Thread Ben Speakmon
On 18 Jul 2001 07:53:03 -0400, Paul Kinnucan wrote: If you can think of anything else that I can do to minimize the impact of this name change on you, please let me know. Shall we trademark JMode just in case? It seems many of us, me included, are willing to help defer the legal cost of one.

Re: ANN: Name Change Plans

2001-07-18 Thread Paul Kinnucan
- Original Message - From: Stephane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul Kinnucan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 9:57 AM Subject: Re: ANN: Name Change Plans You sure made a right choice Paul, I just can't stop thinking to the next JMode release :)

Re: Renaming Proposal

2001-07-18 Thread William L Anderson
jmode- is a good choice; could use jm- for an abbreviation if it's not already in use in another emacs package. -WLA

Re: ANN: Name Change Plans

2001-07-18 Thread eric
: Shall we trademark JMode just in case? It seems many of us, me included, : are willing to help defer the legal cost of one. Can the FSF help in this area? That is, could the FSF set up a dedicated fund for JMode's trademark (to which we could contribute) and take care of whatever paperwork

Re: ANN: Name Change Plans

2001-07-18 Thread Udalrich
At 09:12 AM 7/18/01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Shall we trademark JMode just in case? It seems many of us, me included, : are willing to help defer the legal cost of one. Can the FSF help in this area? That is, could the FSF set up a dedicated fund for JMode's trademark (to which we

Re: Should the JDE require ECB?

2001-07-18 Thread Brad Giaccio
Paul, I've played with ecb a little bit, it was a few revisions back though. And I didn't find it all that useful to me. Maybe if you could sell me on what it brings to the table that speedbar/semantic can't do for me. It just felt very cluttered to me. An on a 1600x1200 display making feel

ECB v1.40 released!

2001-07-18 Thread Jesper Nordenberg
ECB, Emacs Code Browser, version 1.40 is now available at: http://home.swipnet.se/mayhem/ecb.html ECB is a source code browser that displays directories, source files, methods and variables that can be navigated using the mouse (and keyboard). It supports parsing of Java, C, C++ and Elisp

Block comment indentation

2001-07-18 Thread Molitor, Stephen
I have some old files where block comments are not formmated the way I want. They are like this: /** * * */ The stars are flush left. Instead I want this: /** * * */ Now, JDE correctly indents this way when I type new comments. However, I would like to reformat my old code automagically

Re: Renaming Proposal

2001-07-18 Thread Latchezar M. Dimitrov
Hi, I like jmode too. How about slight change with big consequencies?:-) That is, jdm (java development mode of course)? Thanks and sorry if it's too late. Latchezar PS. BTW, I've made a suggestion for j-d-e earlier but haven't heard any comments? Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED];

Re: Renaming Proposal

2001-07-18 Thread Matthew Sherborne
To invoke jde-mode do you type jmode-mode or jmode ? :)

RE: Renaming Proposal

2001-07-18 Thread Schewe, Jon (MN65)
Yeah and what do you put at the top of a file to invoke it? -*- j -*- ? -Original Message- From: Matthew Sherborne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 4:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Renaming Proposal To invoke jde-mode do you type jmode-mode

RE: Renaming Proposal

2001-07-18 Thread Petter Måhlén
Is jmode short for Jmode is MOre than a Development Environment? Jmode Makes Other De:s Extinct? Jmode Means Ok Development Environment? -Original Message- From: Latchezar M. Dimitrov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: den 18 juli 2001 23:29 To: Paul Kinnucan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ANN: Name Change Plans

2001-07-18 Thread eric
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Udalrich wri tes: : : Keep in mind that part of owning a trademark is defending it - if : you don't send out cease and desist letters to people who violate it, : you can't later claim that they violated your rights. : : Is that actually an issue here? The

Re: Renaming Proposal

2001-07-18 Thread Rick Leir
Jim LoVerde wrote: I guess what I'm saying it that depending on the verbage of the letter, it may still be possible to work out an amicable If you own a trademark but never enforce it, it loses validity. So, it might be worthwhile for JD Edwards to flex its muscles at us small fry just

Re: Renaming Proposal

2001-07-18 Thread Jim LoVerde
You are correct regarding enforcement. Hence the reason that they sent Paul the cease and desist notice. However, that only means that they took a cursory glance at JDE, saw that there might be a conflict and took the appropriate measure to notify the potential violator. They are probably

RE: Renaming Proposal

2001-07-18 Thread Paul Kinnucan
At 02:42 PM 7/18/2001 -0700, Iain Huxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure you're sick of naming comments etc. by now, and it may be too late, but: In some ways using the word mode understates what JDE can do for you - it makes it seem like just some formatting helper; the rich set of features

Re: ANN: Name Change Plans

2001-07-18 Thread Paul Kinnucan
At 03:28 PM 7/18/2001 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Also, remember that it's not a one time expense: TMs expire and have to be renewed. That's what happened to JD Edwards, as others on this list have explained it - they let their TM lapse for a year or so, right around the time the

Re: Renaming Proposal

2001-07-18 Thread Paul Kinnucan
At 12:44 AM 7/19/2001 -0400, Paul Kinnucan wrote: Hi Jim, I am now have second thoughts both about simply acceding and about the choice of a name. Your comments make a lot of sense. Maybe I can reach a middle ground with J.D. Edwards. The best scenario would be if they accepted our continued use

Re: Renaming Proposal

2001-07-18 Thread Paul Kinnucan
At 09:23 PM 7/18/2001 -0500, you wrote: You are correct regarding enforcement. Hence the reason that they sent Paul the cease and desist notice. However, that only means that they took a cursory glance at JDE, saw that there might be a conflict and took the appropriate measure to notify the

Re: jde-ant

2001-07-18 Thread jason . stell
Douglas Regarding your second issue, I typically do something like the following in my ant build.xml file !-- Path element containing all jar files in lib directory -- path id=lib.class.path fileset dir=${lib.dir} include name=**/*.jar/ /fileset

Re: Renaming Proposal

2001-07-18 Thread Galen Boyer
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It all comes down to the fact that sending a cease and desist letter seems to be a standard practice (and in fact is required of a trademark owner to retain the rights to a trademark). This doesn't mean that they will necessarily pursue

Re: jde-ant

2001-07-18 Thread Douglas WF Acheson
Hello, Thanks for the reply. I was under the impression that the custom tasks, the ones that I have developed need to be part of the classpath that ant uses. So, if I were to start ant from the command line (not under Emacs) I would include the ant.jar, parser.jar, and jaxp.jar plus my.jar

Re: jde-ant

2001-07-18 Thread jason . stell
Douglas Options: 1 - You can use the jde-ant-args custom variable to pass in the classpath you want to use. 2 - There is a custom variable jde-ant-program that points to the script that runs Ant. You could also edit the script (or create a new one) that passes in the classpath you want to