An Emacs/XEmacs integration is `in progress' at NetBeans. Whether that would work best as an adjunct to JDE or a replacement I'm not sure... Cheers, -Truls
> While this is true enough, the mention on the EAP site about an Emacs > (or XEmacs?) integration 'in progress at Netbeans' really has me > drooling. That would be a *very* good combination. > > http://www.netbeans.com/eap/ffj/modules/wishlist/emacs.html > > As it is, I basically edit in XEmacs and do the visual bits in Fort� > side by side, trusting to each tool to pickup changes done in the > other. This kind of works, but a tighter integration would be > fabulous. Any status updates on this module? OK, OK, a status update--I know a lot of people have asked about this! Yes, it is still in progress but looking much better. Really the editing itself works fine at this stage. The integration is not a standard "hey editor, please do something with this file and let me know when you're done"; rather, the line of communication between Emacs and the IDE is completely live and bidirectional, and it works fine to switch between the Editor and the Explorer window to e.g. modify Bean parameters, or add new property bundle locales, or internationalize at point, or use generated code from the Form Editor, or step through code in the debugger, all without saving-and-reloading or any such nonsense. Basically an external Emacs assumes all of the functions of the regular editor. The main delay is getting the entry to and exit from the editing mode to be less cumbersome. Both Emacs and the IDE have to agree that they are both ready to communicate, and the IDE has to be made to *not* open up an Editor tab itself as Swing-based editors normally do (Emacs is not embeddable into the Java window), and a host of network errors have to be handled gracefully. When these types of problems are dealt with better than they are now, we will be comfortable releasing an alpha preview of the integration for folks to pound on. BTW, the integration supports both Emacs and XEmacs (as well as Unix and NT both) the same way, and permits the IDE and Emacs to be on different machines. -Jesse Jesse Glick <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NetBeans/Sun Micro <http://www.netbeans.com/> tel +(4202) 3308 5153 fax +(4202) 3308 5199 APIs: <http://www.netbeans.com/eap/ffj/apis/> -- To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please visit http://www.netbeans.com/eap_list.html To file a technical support request, please go to http://www.netbeans.com/support_request.html If you have any problems, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
