From: "Ludwig, Mark" <ludwig.mark@siemens.com>
To: Francesco Mazzoli <f@mazzo.li>,
"help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Emacs and Java
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:35:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BC5672F8AD4C054BAF167C9801500D1AB0AF76F8@USSLMMBX003.net.plm.eds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87har0onhj.wl%f@mazzo.li>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francesco Mazzoli
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 6:25 AM
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Emacs and Java
>
> 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.
I use cc-mode, which does a reasonable job for my Java work.
I have to confess to being unhappy about the fact that cc-mode knows nothing about the object-oriented nature of Java. I make up for that myself through heavy use of tags, which I build with custom extras to pick up interface definitions.
Note further that I have not tried the current etags (v24), which might pick up interface definitions....
Hope this helps,
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-14 13:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-14 11:25 Emacs and Java Francesco Mazzoli
2012-09-14 13:28 ` 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 [this message]
[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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