On Jan 5, 2008 6:30 AM, Richard Stallman &lt;<a href="mailto:rms@gnu.org" target="_blank">rms@gnu.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

gud.el was the beginning of an Emacs IDE.<br>Nick Roberts has greatly extended its capabilities<br>in Emacs 22. &nbsp;What more should we add?<br></blockquote></div><br>The graphical improvements to GUD are nice, but as far as I can see, the new features are limited to viewing GUD data.
<br>The other things that could be added are being discussed, and I thought I&#39;d listed a couple of possibilities.<br><br>project management (files &amp; build)<br>bug tracking (see the other threads)<br>task management (
planner.el, todo-mode, etc.)<br>code browsing (yes, it exists, but as add-ons)<br>manage window configurations (Eclipse calls them perspectives)<br>integrating profiling tools - and analyzing the results<br><br><br>An IDE can be so much more than a debugger.
<br>And, yes, Emacs can run make, launch the application, debug the application, send email.<br>But an organization of those capabilities (and more) might lead to something greater than the sum of the parts.<br><br>Again, I&#39;m only suggesting to think about such items, and if the emacs developers would see pieces that are useful to themselves, then do it.&nbsp; I think someone who develops software tools s/he doesn&#39;t use her/himself leads to useless tools.
<br><br><br>TJ<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Trey Jackson<br><a href="mailto:bigfaceworm@gmail.com" target="_blank">
bigfaceworm@gmail.com</a><br>&quot;Like any truly useful program, `hello&#39; contains a built-in mail reader.&quot;<br>-- GNU&#39;s Bulletin, July 1996<br>