From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phillip Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Slickedit features in Emacs? Date: 21 May 2003 20:08:57 +0100 Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K. Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87e77d96.0305211059.3e15858a@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053547695 7071 80.91.224.249 (21 May 2003 20:08:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 20:08:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 21 22:08:13 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19IZsW-0001nl-00 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 22:08:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19IZqK-0000zH-7H for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 May 2003 16:05:44 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!peernews3.colt.net!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsr1.ipcore.viaginterkom.de!btnet-peer1!btnet!zen.net.uk!130.88.203.18.MISMATCH!peernews.mcc.ac.uk!cs.man.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 45 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: wapping.cs.man.ac.uk 1053544137 24683 130.88.198.228 (21 May 2003 19:08:57 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@wapping.cs.man.ac.uk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 19:08:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.93 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:113478 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9974 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9974 >>>>> "Henrik" == Henrik Jönsson writes: Henrik> I just was on a demo for Visual SlickEdit here at my Henrik> company. I am impressed. My initial question was of course Henrik> if the functions in Slickedit exists in emacs. Some of them Henrik> exists I know. Henrik> * Autocompletion of expressions. When the user write "if " Henrik> it expands Henrik> automatically into a full if template. Can this be done with Henrik> skeletons? There are several different ways of doing this within emacs, including tempo and skeleton. JDE does this out of the box for java. Henrik> * "Intellisense". I know that semantic can do something like Henrik> this, but Henrik> does it work for everyday use? Has anyone tried it? Again the Java version of this works out of the box with JDE. My own experience with the full semantic version suggests that its not ready for every day use yet, but I hope that it will become so. Although my experience with Java is that dynamic abbreviation expansion works as well in most circumstances and is quicker. Henrik> * Dynamic Tagging. Go to the function declaration etc. I Henrik> haven't used Henrik> tags that much. Again there are many facilities for doing this sort of navigation. Henrik> I don't want to abandon emacs because I use it for calendar, Henrik> diary, notes, etc. But for programming Slickedit is very Henrik> interresting. I always thought it looked good, but start up costs of learning something new are always large. I tend to stick with emacs, because of its breadth (the number of things it supports) rather than its depth (how well it supports each). Cheers Phil