On 6/28/06, Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 02:30:06PM -0600, Bryan Sant 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.
Unfortunately, it needs to be seen/experienced to really take in the vast benefits. I can produce a bullet list of fancy sounding features, but they are meaningless unless you see them applied while writing real code. The closest thing I can think of would be listing out the benefits of bash to someone who's only used bourne shell. You could talk about auto-completion, aliases, auto-completing command arguments, history, command-line text substitution, and all the readline lib benefits, etc., etc. But until you see someone cruise around with bash, you won't really know what you're missing. Watching someone who is proficient with their IDE write code is something to behold. The general-purpose features of vim or emacs are no match for the intimate java language feature exploitation that Eclipse or NetBeans provide. On the other hand, vim and emacs are good for many, many things. While Eclipse and NetBeans are basically one-trick ponies (well eclipse is a 'platform' and has other language support). -Bryan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
