On 1/3/07, Austin Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hank, I think you are confused about how editors can handle multiple languages. In emacs, when you open a java file, a java mode is loaded, which sets up the environment for editing java code. When you code in actionscript, it uses an actionscript mode. In each of these modes, everything about the editor is setup just like it was an editor just for that language alone, including everything from syntax highlighting to commands to compile your code.
Austin, I understand that emacs has modes for different languages. In fact, just so I could be a little smarter on the subject I googled java on emacs over the weekend. And everything I read suggested that while there are custom modes in emacs that in at least the case of java, that you are giving up a lot of features from something like JDT in eclipse. While all the discussion seemed to say that it is great for someone who loves emacs that wants to program in java, the consensus seems to be that java specific features in the java emacs plugin were not as featureful as eclipse. I am sure this includes the nature of error detection, but of course I am only intuiting that and did not read it. Honestly, to understand what something like eclipse JDT or even intelliJ, or netbeans does for java you really have to see it. Like I said in an earlier post, the tools almost think for you. Its stuff that needs to be in an editor, but really doesnt have that much to do with "editing". Of course if you are an emacs guy that wants to program java I am sure the emacs extensions would make you quite happy. Regards, Hank
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