From: Francesco Mazzoli <f@mazzo.li>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Emacs and Java
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:25:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87har0onhj.wl%f@mazzo.li> (raw)
Hi,
As much as I dislike Java, I find myself having to write Java code from time to
time, and I'm sure that a lot of you are in the same situation.
Given that, I find it very surprising that support for the Java language in
Emacs is abysmal.
I tried:
* java-mode: does not support any modern Java construct, and with modern I
mean >= Java 5 (generics, foreach loops, enums).
* JDEE: seems to be completely unmaintained and barely working with modern
emacsen, and lacking support for post-2004 Java as well.
* malabar-mode <https://github.com/espenhw/malabar-mode/>: promises support
for what JDEE is lacking. Building with stock Maven and Emacs on Ubuntu
12.04 fails. There is a fork (<https://github.com/buzztaiki/malabar-mode>)
that seems more maintained but building fails there as well with a different
error.
So it seems that there is no way to at least edit comfortably Java code, let
alone have flymake, semantic features, etc. This seems a huge gap in what is
the best editor out there.
Am I correct, or is there hope in some project I haven't considered?
malabar-mode seems to be the best candidate (if you can get it working) but
frankly I'm not that comfortable using it since it pulls a huge number of
dependencies and I don't want something to fancy anyway.
--
Francesco * Often in error, never in doubt
next reply other threads:[~2012-09-14 11:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-14 11:25 Francesco Mazzoli [this message]
2012-09-14 13:28 ` Emacs and Java Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-14 14:14 ` Francesco Mazzoli
2012-09-14 14:32 ` Francesco Mazzoli
2012-09-14 15:01 ` Francesco Mazzoli
2012-09-14 13:35 ` Ludwig, Mark
[not found] ` <CAHW=5p_PBvqzLFa0dFGgTvKS94oU2mn9332G7Ce1VLZwRQjDiQ@mail.gmail.com>
2012-09-14 16:29 ` Grégoire Neuville
2012-09-15 7:25 ` Francesco Mazzoli
2012-09-16 6:53 ` Tom
2012-09-15 0:53 ` Leo
2012-09-15 7:27 ` Francesco Mazzoli
2012-09-15 8:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-15 11:17 ` Jambunathan K
2012-09-15 11:48 ` Jambunathan K
2012-09-15 20:57 ` Francesco Mazzoli
2012-09-15 7:22 ` JDEE help (was: Emacs and Java) Francesco Mazzoli
2012-09-15 8:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-15 9:28 ` Forward: " Francesco Mazzoli
2012-09-15 18:39 ` JDEE help Philipp Haselwarter
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