At 11:05 AM 7/2/99 +0000, Glenn Proctor wrote:
>Hi
>
>I've been a long-time user of the JDE on GNU Emacs 19.36 under Windows 95.
>
>I've recently moved jobs, and now use XEmacs (21.2b15, precompiled) under
>Win 98. It's either this or JBuilder ...
>
>I downloaded the beta JDE 2.1.6 in order to get the context-sensitive help.
>However, on trying C-c C-v C-h I get a message in the modeline that says
>"Starting the BeanShell, please wait ..." and it hangs.
>
>I assume the bsh process isn't starting; I know XEmacs on NT has problems
>with processes.
>
>Has anyone else seen (and solved!) this problem?
>
The JDE launches the BeanShell directly. It doesn.'t use a shell.
Anyway, I've tried the same XEmacs beta and it hangs too often to be usable
in my opinion. Thus, I'm not inclined at this point to invest a lot of time
trying to investigate JDE compatibility problems.
>I can of course provide my .emacs file, but I thought I'd just do a quick
>post in case this is a common occurrence.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Glenn.
>
>P.S. On a related note, I used to use a file called javahelp.el that also
>provided context-sensitive help, but now I can't find it - does anyone have
>a pointer to it?
>
Try the contributed software page on the JDE website.
>P.P.S. This is posted out of necessity with a MS news client - apologies for
>any glaring formatting errors!
>
