Re: Emacs and Java

["Grégoire Neuville" <gregoire.neuville@gmail.com>]

Hello,

There is : https://github.com/senny/emacs-eclim

(haven't tried it though)

Otherwise if you're able and willing to, I strongly and heartily
advise you to switch to scala (http://www.scala-lang.org/ , fully
interoperable with java) ; then you could use
https://github.com/aemoncannon/ensime which is great.

Hope that will help,

G.N

On 14 September 2012 13:25, Francesco Mazzoli <f@mazzo.li> wrote:
> 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
>



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Grégoire Neuville


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