Re: An Eclim frontend for Emacs

[Chris McMahan <cmcmahan@one.net>]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Richard,
>
>> You're saying that eclipse completion features now work in emacs with
>> company-mode?
>
> Exactly.
>
>> Wow? Is it trivial to set up?
>
> Quite.  Here's my config.
>
> (require 'company)
> (define-key company-mode-map (kbd "M-SPC") 'company-complete)
>
> (defun th-turn-on-company-mode ()
>   (interactive)
>   (company-mode 1))
>
> (dolist (hook (list
>                'emacs-lisp-mode-hook
>                'lisp-mode-hook
>                'lisp-interaction-mode-hook
>                'clojure-mode-hook
>                'java-mode-hook
>                'haskell-mode-hook
>                'slime-repl-mode-hook
>                'sh-mode-hook))
>   (add-hook hook 'th-turn-on-company-mode))
>
> (setq company-idle-delay nil
>       company-eclim-auto-save t)
>
> (setq company-eclim-executable
>       "~/opt/eclipse/plugins/org.eclim_1.4.5/bin/eclim")
>
> (defun th-java-mode-init ()
>   (setq company-backend 'company-eclim))
>
> (add-hook 'java-mode-hook 'th-java-mode-init)
>
> And you need to install eclim, of course.  But it has an installer that
> worked just fine for me.
>
>> What about stuff like refactoring? Is there an eclim interface for
>> that? Or context API help?  Or are those outside of the remit of
>> eclim?
>
> No, I think most if not all features are usable via eclim.  For
> refactoring I don't know, but at least the eclipse incremental compiler
> can be used to highlight errors in the code.  Same for any completion
> functionality and things like "Organize imports".
>
> That's all available for Vim right now, and I plan to start a project
> which writes an emacs frontend.  But my time is quite limited at the
> moment, so I don't know exactly when I get a first version which
> implements some first features.  When I've done that, I'll announce it
> and hope for many volunteers doing the work for me. ;-)
>
> The git repo is already there:
>
>   http://repo.or.cz/w/eclim-emacs.git
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo


Thanks for the config, but I have had no luck getting it (or variations
of it) to work in Windows XP using Emacs 23. I've tried your config,
pointing the executable to 

  "c:/eclipse/plugins/org.eclim_1.4.5/bin/eclim.bat"
  "c:/eclipse/plugins/org.eclim_1.4.5/bin/eclim.cmd"
  "/cygdrivec/eclipse/plugins/org.eclim_1.4.5/bin/eclim.cmd"

and any other combination I can think of.

When I start the eclimd application
  "c:/eclipse/eclimd.bat"
or
  "c:/eclipse/eclimd.cmd"

it seems to start ok, and tells me it's listening on port 9091

... other output...

Debug options:
    file:/C:/eclipse/.options not found
Time to load bundles: 63
Starting application: 14656
2009-04-28 16:30:34,218 INFO  [org.eclim.eclipse.AbstractEclimApplication] Starting eclim...Application Started: 16562
2009-04-28 16:30:35,687 INFO  [org.eclim.eclipse.AbstractEclimApplication] Loading eclim plugins...
2009-04-28 16:30:35,703 INFO  [org.eclim.eclipse.AbstractEclimApplication] Loading plugin org.eclim.ant
2009-04-28 16:30:35,734 INFO  [org.eclim.eclipse.AbstractEclimApplication] Loaded plugin org.eclim.ant_1.4.5.
2009-04-28 16:30:35,750 INFO  [org.eclim.eclipse.AbstractEclimApplication] Loading plugin org.eclim.jdt
2009-04-28 16:30:37,062 WARN  [org.eclim.plugin.jdt.PluginResources] Unable to locate jre src.zip.
2009-04-28 16:30:37,140 INFO  [org.eclim.eclipse.AbstractEclimApplication] Loaded plugin org.eclim.jdt_1.4.5.
2009-04-28 16:30:37,156 INFO  [org.eclim.eclipse.AbstractEclimApplication] Loading plugin org.eclim.maven
2009-04-28 16:30:37,171 INFO  [org.eclim.eclipse.AbstractEclimApplication] Loaded plugin org.eclim.maven_1.4.5.
2009-04-28 16:30:37,203 INFO  [org.eclim.eclipse.AbstractEclimApplication] Eclim Server Startedon port 9091.


But when I load the java file in emacs that I've set up inside eclipse,
I get no completions whatsoever. It's as if company is not even loaded.

I have verified that company works ok with elisp, and also the the
company-backend when editing java is set to "company-eclim",

I'm at a loss now on how to get this working on XP, but I would REALLY
like to see this functionality!

Has anyone else been able to get company and eclimd working on XP?

Thanks for a great package!!

- Chris McMahan


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