From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Improving Emacs for writing code Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:00:41 +1200 Message-ID: <18447.13049.286614.955366@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <84D8FEFE8D23E94E9C2A6F0C58EE07E33A8D20@mucmail3.sdm.de> <480E1B3E.8060905@gmail.com> <84D8FEFE8D23E94E9C2A6F0C58EE07E33A8FBB@mucmail3.sdm.de> <18447.3815.736465.866983@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <84D8FEFE8D23E94E9C2A6F0C58EE07E33A91F0@mucmail3.sdm.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208956576 32168 80.91.229.12 (23 Apr 2008 13:16:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:16:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 23 15:16:48 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Joepj-00068v-PD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:16:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Joep3-0003Qs-LU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:15:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Joeoy-0003Pl-Tf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:15:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Joeoy-0003PO-Be for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:15:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Joeoy-0003P7-7o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:15:36 -0400 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.25]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Joeav-0006WG-S6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:01:06 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (135.31.255.123.static.snap.net.nz [123.255.31.135]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FC423DA244; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:00:53 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 916FF8FC6D; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:00:46 +1200 (NZST) In-Reply-To: <84D8FEFE8D23E94E9C2A6F0C58EE07E33A91F0@mucmail3.sdm.de> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.2.50.2 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:95836 Archived-At: > no, it has it's own tree-library tree-buffer.el which offers as well > as tree-widget.el powerful ascii- and graphical tree-displays... If ECB gets imported into Emacs, then I'll use tree-buffer.el. >... > > I'm not very familiar with ECB but perhaps it could work with > > gdb-ui.el in a manner similar to Eclipse: ECB being one > > 'perspective', gdb-ui another, > > Yes, this would be possible - ECB more or less is just a 'displayor' or > layout-engine which can display any stuff like parsing-informations from > CEDET or also debugging stuff from gdb... but i do not know gdb-ui.el to > give an exact answer... but to give another example: ECB works very well with > screen/window-managers like escreen.el or winring.el... maybe this helps > you a little bit to better judge the interaction between ECB and gdb-ui.el... gdb-ui.el uses dedicated windows and I have heard that ECB does too, which I think is why there have been reports of conflicts, e.g, http://groups.google.co.nz/group/comp.emacs/browse_thread/thread/b824e4052d7df237/add8b897ae4b7ab3?hl=en&lnk=st&q=gdb+ecb#add8b897ae4b7ab3 One way to avoid conflicts presumably would be stop them sharing the same frame, as with perspectives. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob