on 7/24/00 5:43 PM, Peter Donald at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 01:42 24/7/00 -0700, you wrote: >> This was always my thought as well. If I'm doing iterative development, I'm >> sitting at a GUI. If I'm doing nightly builds, then a command line is fine, >> but iterative is not a requirement. > > Well there is a bunch of people who use text editors like Emacs :P. It is > very uncouth to be forced to compile via a GUI app - which removes all > funky features Emacs does to compile lines. The only reason I want > incremental mode is to reduce the overhead of JVM startup.
I use emacs all the time.. Well, that and a few other editors that I'm trying out (but emacs still seems to be what I use mostly). How does incremental help out? -- in the M-x compile case that is.. If you are running it from a shell window, then I can see how it would help. .duncan
