Re: [Hipgmap-developers] eclipse

[Nic P. <nic...@ya...>]

Adam Bliss wrote:
> Er, what's wrong with just using Emacs, then?
> 
> Just curious.  I do all my work in Emacs and it's hard to imagine what 
> else an editor could offer me.  I just assumed you guys didn't use emacs 
> because you didn't like the key bindings. :)

I've been an emacs user for 10 years, so trust me in saying it has to be 
something well worth it for me to switch editors. (every single machine 
I work on has caps-lock rebound to control)

However, the world has come a long way since the plain text editing 
functions of emacs.  Yes, JDEE provides some of the same, but in a much 
slower manner and nowhere near as integrated.

Some of the great reasons to use Eclipse with emacs bindings:
   - never having to rebuild your tags table, it's always up to date
   - code navigation is a breeze and instantaneous (jump to 
implementation of method under cursor etc.)
   - viewing callers for methods / classes
   - refactoring in any of a dozen ways makes your code cleaner and 
development way faster
   - completion of methods lets you work faster and use unfamiliar 
libraries more easily
   - with the built in emacs bindings you lose very little of your 
hard-wired navigation neurons

That's just off the top of my head.  I do like being able to write my 
own elisp in emacs for some tasks, but even that's fairly easily in 
Eclipse or IntelliJ.  The fact just is that we've learned a lot in the 
past decade on how to make better code editors and emacs hasn't done a 
fantastic job of keeping up.  Yes, tools have been made to bolt these 
on, but their implementation and integration leaves a lot to be desired.

-Nic