From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Paul Michael Reilly <pmr@pajato.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Neat features in Eclipse editor
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:51:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803240151.m2O1pV87000561@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JdBXE-0005Pj-Mt@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:45:52 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> I just got a demo of the Eclipse editor and saw these features
> which we should have in Emacs.
>
> * Having tabs above a window to switch buffers in it.
>
> * "Perspectives" are named persistent window configurations. We have
> had the window configuration mechanism in GNU Emacs since the
> beginning but we have never developed a good user interface to take
> advantage of them. Eclipse's user interface seems to be good.
There are (at least) 2 key features that make Eclipse's perspectives
very useful:
- the UI to select/switch them
- the fact that there's a predefined set of perspectives that are
useful for specific tasks, and it's easy to teach users about how
to perform certain tasks using them.
> * Imenu could be extended into a file-structure browsing mechanism
> using code like that of customize-groups.
Doesn't `speedbar' already provide something very similar to (if
not exactly) that?
> * Display something in the margin on lines that have compilation
> errors.
>
> * Compilation error navigation bar, parallel to the scroll bar,
> indicating where in the buffer there are compilation errors.
> Perhaps we could arrange to display these error indications on top
> of the scroll bar itself. That depends on to what extent toolkit
> scroll bars are extensible.
It can also be done with another fringe (and what Eclipse uses seems to
be more like a fringe).
More interesting things that Eclipse provides by default:
- something very similar to `show-paren-mode'
- inserting pairs of parenthesis, quotes, etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-24 1:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 141+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-22 21:45 Neat features in Eclipse editor Richard Stallman
2008-03-22 21:56 ` Chong Yidong
2008-03-22 21:36 ` Tom Tromey
2008-03-22 23:09 ` Leo
2008-03-23 14:18 ` William Xu
2008-03-23 2:27 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-23 9:53 ` joakim
2008-03-23 10:50 ` martin rudalics
2008-03-23 10:54 ` martin rudalics
2008-03-23 19:35 ` John S. Yates, Jr.
2008-03-23 19:39 ` Thomas Lord
2008-03-23 21:06 ` John S. Yates, Jr.
2008-03-23 21:42 ` Thomas Lord
2008-03-23 19:49 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-25 8:11 ` dtm
2008-03-24 0:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-24 0:54 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-24 19:02 ` joakim
2008-03-25 1:06 ` Bastien
2008-03-25 18:31 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-25 19:19 ` Rajappa Iyer
2008-03-26 1:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-26 4:46 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-25 1:50 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-18 13:25 ` joakim
2008-04-19 2:23 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-24 0:53 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-24 18:47 ` paul r
2008-03-25 1:50 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-25 3:53 ` Window configuration UI (was: Neat features in Eclipse editor) Stefan Monnier
2008-03-25 10:54 ` Window configuration UI Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-25 18:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-26 4:47 ` Window configuration UI (was: Neat features in Eclipse editor) Richard Stallman
2008-03-26 9:41 ` Window configuration UI Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-26 22:26 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-27 2:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-27 19:41 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-29 16:27 ` Michael Sperber
2008-03-31 2:41 ` Window configuration UI (was: Neat features in Eclipse editor) Nick Roberts
2008-03-31 16:25 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-01 3:00 ` Window configuration UI Stefan Monnier
2008-04-01 21:04 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-25 10:08 ` Neat features in Eclipse editor paul r
2008-03-25 10:55 ` David Reitter
2008-03-25 11:35 ` paul r
2008-03-25 21:00 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-25 22:10 ` paul r
2008-03-26 1:50 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-03-26 22:26 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-25 21:01 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-25 21:16 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-25 23:17 ` Mike Mattie
2008-03-26 2:23 ` Evans Winner
2008-03-26 7:09 ` Jan Djärv
2008-03-26 7:18 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-26 22:25 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-26 22:38 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-03-26 22:57 ` paul r
2008-03-26 23:20 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-03-27 6:57 ` David Kastrup
2008-03-27 0:22 ` Mike Mattie
2008-03-27 0:17 ` Mike Mattie
2008-03-27 19:41 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-27 20:18 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-03-27 0:18 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-25 0:48 ` Bastien
2008-03-24 1:51 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2008-03-24 12:29 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-24 18:24 ` joakim
2008-03-25 1:50 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-06 20:52 ` Tab bar (was: Neat features in Eclipse editor) Juri Linkov
2008-04-06 23:07 ` Tab bar David Koppelman
2008-04-06 23:48 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-07 0:05 ` David Koppelman
2008-04-07 0:32 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-07 14:59 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-07 23:27 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-08 15:35 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-08 15:50 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-08 16:58 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-09 10:33 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-09 23:27 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-07 14:59 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-07 15:33 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-07 23:31 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-08 0:21 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-08 2:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-08 22:11 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-09 2:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-09 8:45 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-09 9:34 ` Paul R
2008-04-09 14:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-08 13:58 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2008-04-08 14:21 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-08 15:55 ` Paul R
2008-04-08 16:04 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-04-08 16:24 ` Paul R
2008-04-08 16:25 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2008-04-08 20:10 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-08 21:16 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-08 21:47 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-09 2:50 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-09 8:50 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-09 7:55 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-09 10:34 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-09 14:59 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-08 22:09 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-09 8:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-04-09 8:52 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-08 16:50 ` Ehud Karni
2008-04-07 16:09 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-07 16:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-07 23:35 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-08 15:36 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-09 1:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-09 10:34 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-07 23:28 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-07 1:37 ` Tab bar (was: Neat features in Eclipse editor) Drew Adams
2008-04-07 14:59 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-07 16:09 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-07 23:35 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-04-07 23:33 ` Tab bar Juri Linkov
2008-04-07 15:00 ` Tab bar (was: Neat features in Eclipse editor) Richard Stallman
2008-04-07 23:59 ` Tab bar David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-08 22:06 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-09 1:07 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-09 8:48 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-09 9:24 ` David Kastrup
2008-04-09 23:28 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-10 6:11 ` Jan Djärv
2008-04-10 7:31 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-10 7:44 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-10 8:08 ` Jan Djärv
2008-04-10 15:31 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-10 23:11 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-12 0:10 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-09 9:45 ` Paul R
2008-04-09 23:29 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-10 8:09 ` Paul R
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-03-28 1:49 Neat features in Eclipse editor Josh Gilbert
2008-03-28 23:54 ` Richard Stallman
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