On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 03:41:27PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > Serious question, not flame bait: what is lacking from Emacs that a > "modern" IDE would have? I'm mildly intrigued by Eclipse, but wonder > what it has that would be worth trading in my expertise in Emacs to > get. >
I use eclipse for re-factoring and debugging. Its lack of emacs keystroke compatibility drives me nuts, though. The big advantage of eclipse, IMO, is that it includes a BUNCH of stuff out-of-the-box. To make emacs an IDE, I have to install jdee and all its dependencies, color-theme.el, my .emacs with a bunch of c-add-style, add-hook, and global-set-key calls, etc. The standard mail, calendar, version control, diff/merge tools and games that are normally available with emacs probably seemed like a lot at some point, but discovering what's available and installing it is a major headache for most people I've introduced to emacs. Barry /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
