Re: Emacs and java...

1998-07-27 Thread Peter Eddy
Steve Cohen wrote: > > I have been using SlickEdit (and its successor Visual Slick Edit) on DOS and > Windows platforms for almost 10 years. I swear by them. You can configure it to > just about any keystroke configuration you wish - vi, emacs, cua, your own > hybrid. Plus you get a lot of bel

Re: Emacs and java...

1998-07-27 Thread Steve Cohen
I have been using SlickEdit (and its successor Visual Slick Edit) on DOS and Windows platforms for almost 10 years. I swear by them. You can configure it to just about any keystroke configuration you wish - vi, emacs, cua, your own hybrid. Plus you get a lot of bells and whistles in it besides

Re: Emacs and java...

1998-07-26 Thread Peter Eddy
Liam Magee wrote: I don't know about either of the two editors mentioned, but I've been using emacs and xemacs for quite a while and I don't see any reason to switch, excepting of course, that emacs editors seem to be carpel-tunnel inducing. peter > > Hardly on topic but - based on the recom

RE: Emacs and java...

1998-07-26 Thread Liam Magee
Hardly on topic but - based on the recommendation below, I've been evaluating slickedit and Codewright. Has anyone compared these two, and if this is not the place to discuss code editors, does anyone know of any mailing list which does? Liam Magee. > > Personally I avoid emacs when ever possib

Re: Emacs and java...

1998-07-24 Thread Jerry Treweek
Nice plug for O'Reilly, Albert ;-), but why this channel ? Personally I avoid emacs when ever possible having used vi for years (ok, decades). But - I recently came across a REAL programmers editor called slickedit while looking for a Java code beautifier - see www.slickedit.com This really mad

Re: Emacs and java...

1998-07-23 Thread Albert Lai
I recommend reading a book on Emacs to get yourself started. I learned Emacs by reading: @Book{Cameron:LGE-1996, author = "Debra Cameron and Bill Rosenblatt and Eric S. Raymond", title ="Learning {GNU} {E}macs", publisher ="O'Reilly \& Associates", year = 1996,

Re: Emacs and java...

1998-07-21 Thread Peter Eddy
these tools available for NT? > > Liam. > > > -Original Message- > > From: Zhichao Hong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, 22 July 1998 5:32 > > To: Dustin Lang > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Emacs and java... > >

Re: JL: RE: Emacs and java...

1998-07-21 Thread Chris Dean
"Liam Magee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are these tools available for NT? Emacs is, but not (currently) XEmacs. http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html Chris Dean

RE: Emacs and java...

1998-07-21 Thread Liam Magee
Are these tools available for NT? Liam. > -Original Message- > From: Zhichao Hong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 22 July 1998 5:32 > To: Dustin Lang > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Emacs and java... > > > Hi Dustin: > > It is really

Re: JL: Emacs and java...

1998-07-21 Thread Chris Dean
Dustin Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've decided to give Emacs a try (I normally use pico :) for my java > development (my full-time job). Can anyone tell me how to set the > character emacs uses to indent? Right now it's using two spaces as a tab. > I'm a believer in the a-tab-is-a-tab a

Re: Emacs and java...

1998-07-21 Thread Zhichao Hong
Hi Dustin: It is really terrible to develop something in a pico. You should try vi or emacs. Both are very powerful editor tools. Here is a page about JDE, it is for emacs. Just following the instruction to install. It is a great tool and much better than Visual J++ and Visual Cafe. Take a

Emacs and java...

1998-07-21 Thread Dustin Lang
Hi, I know this isn't really on-topic but I'm sure there is someone on this list with the answer... I've decided to give Emacs a try (I normally use pico :) for my java development (my full-time job). Can anyone tell me how to set the character emacs uses to indent? Right now it's using two sp