Chris wrote: > (Sorry if this is the wrong place to send this)
> If I'm not mistaken there's likely to be nothing I want to do in emacs > that can't be customized. Trouble is I don't know how. This'll get me barred from the cabal. Go to http://groups.google.com and type in the keywords comp.emacs Klaus Berndl In there you'll find all the answers to all the questions. (Including the question to what questions you should be asking.) Questions such as: 1. How do I indent my java code. (cc-mode) 2. How can I customize my windows. (ecb-mode) 3. How do I make my own templates and boilerplates (tempo-mode) 4. How can I bolt on a powerful set of tools to query and modify my code. (cygwin-mode) > In particular, there are a number of things I'd like to be able to do > that I can do in TextPad, my shareware editor of choice. I think TextPad is a good editor, but now I've found emacs I don't miss it. > And also source-code browsing would be nice, so I could drilldown into > methods etc. Ant integration also would be nice. Use the "Emacs Code Browser" -- http://home.swipnet.se/mayhem/ecb.html > I believe that for most of these, emacs provides simple functions that > need to be key-mapped, and for the rest, the functions can be built from > other functions and then keymapped. (The source browsing would be > trickier but perhaps I can just steal JDE's.) My only question then is > how to get started. You've already started by downloading and installing the JDEE. And by either luck (or good research) your selection of JDE is fortunate. JDE works seamlessly with the "Emacs Code Browser" and also with the Cygwin development tools. Oh, and by the way, once you added Cygwin, you won't have much change from your 100MB IDE limit.
