>> Is the purpose of Emacs and JDE mostly to give a nice environment >> for those >> users who don't have much space, speed, and don't have admin >> rights on their >> machine? >In my case, none of the above, >All the IDE I have tried(Visual Cafe, JBuilder) >are incredible slower compare to emacs(I have a pIII 850 btw). >Do not have the editing power than emacs does, >the emacs key strokes binding does not do it for me. >They tend to crash often, are memory hugs, .... >and I could keep going. >In brief, JDE offers most of the features(or more in some cases) >of graphical IDE's plus the ability to fully use emacs. Just combine JDE with ECB (http://home.swipnet.se/mayhem/ecb.html go to the screenshots-section) and you get even the graphical IDE. Klaus
