For what it's worth, there is an editor written in java that pretty much tries to emulate emacs. It is JEdit. I download the latest version every now and then just to see what they are doing, but I still stick to my old and dear friend emacs. I am pretty sure it claims to have most of the features of JDE. Naturally, being java based, its extention language is java.
=eas= On 26 Jan, Daniel Hegyi wrote: > In one letter Paul K. writes: >>Why not use Java to add GUIs for these tasks to Emacs. Again, I think >>the opposition Emacs versus IDE is more perception than reality. > > > In another letter Paul K. writes: >>I think what you are suggesting is impractical. I don't see how you >>can provide a robust and efficient extension framework that runs in a >>separate process from Emacs itself. Interprocess communications >>and synchronization pose very great, perhaps insurmountable >>difficulties for such a framework. > > > I don't quite understand what you mean. Are you saying that it is a > good idea to do _GUI_ development for Emacs in Java, but it is a bad > idea to do much generic development for Emacs in Java? Or are you > saying that any type > (i.e., not just GUI) and a large amount of Java development is > certainly a possibility but you don't support the notion of Java APIs > for Emacs and consider a better solution the use of the beanshell? > > > Regards, > Daniel > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com >
