Yes, JDE lacks the find-usage option, and I think it would be a nice feature to have, its not high on my priority list though, as Paul Kinnucan pointed out the find-expression can be used as a substitute. I don't understand the fuss about it - maybe it because emacs/jde doesn't support it that its important for the Idea users !? :-). Look at the problem this way - Idea is just a simple GUI implementation of emacs/jde which lacks a lot of the powers in emacs(/jde), and then it might have some nice-to-have features lacking in jde. For my own experience I think if a feature is needed by enough then it will be implemented, and if you are the only one interested in it then you can do it yourself :-); - that's another important power of emacs/jde!!! You can modify it to extreme for you own personal needs, you can not do that with Idea or any other IDE for that matter. Generally I think people not using emacs are very aggressive against emacs, but I think its because they have never understood the power of emacs because they have never found out how they should use emacs. Basically I think this issue relates to the old problem of bringing computers out to the masses - that problem was resolved with GUI because it looked more appealing to people and hence appeared easier to understand. Anyway, I just read a lot of the "jdee installer" mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and most of them say what I was about to say.
Sincerely Henrik Kjær -----Original Message----- From: Sebastian Hauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 4. december 2002 19:51 To: Henrik Kjær Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Refactoring Wish List Hi Henrik, > -----Original Message----- > From: Henrik Kjær [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 2:23 AM > To: Sebastian Hauer > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Refactoring Wish List > > > Hey, you are talking about emacs - behave! :-) I'm so sorry - emacs rules !!!! :) > Here is ten good reasons why you shouldn't give up emacs/jde > for Idea :-) > > http://www.devx.com/free/hotlinks/2002/ednote050102/ednote050102-1.asp Thanks for the link. I will use it wisely, hehehe... Never will I doubt the many advantages emacs has to offer to software development. :) OK let's get real. Many developers want it very simple and do as much with a mouse click and without their brain as possible. They will never switch to emacs. Though my problem is that I like emacs a lot and I have been developing on it ever since I discovered Unix. Now I am again stuck on Windows and even on this unfriendly OS I can use my emacs. But now I am forced fighting a never ending corporate war of pro full IDE users. And with IDEA they have a dangerous weapon against me. Now all my regular expression power is worthless once they do their Ctr+Right-Click [find usage] on class, method and variable names. OK ok it sounds a little over dramatic but this is more or less how it is. Though I really appreciate the efforts right now made to bring refactoring and other cool new features into JDE and emacs and I look forward trying them. Regards, Sebastian
