From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving? Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:25:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wqn5o7te.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380828363 10370 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2013 19:26:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:26:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 03 21:26:06 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VRoXG-0003WF-EF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 21:26:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44864 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRoXG-0003lp-1b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:26:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41322) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRoWx-0003lP-O4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:25:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRoWp-0003NU-Et for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:25:47 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35798) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRoWp-0003MB-7A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:25:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VRoWl-00036J-KS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 21:25:35 +0200 Original-Received: from yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com ([129.34.20.23]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 21:25:35 +0200 Original-Received: from kgoldman by yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 21:25:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 In-Reply-To: <87wqn5o7te.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93818 Archived-At: On 8/28/2013 4:53 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: > > Is Eclipse even a GP editor, isn't it just a lousy IDE for the > equally-lousy Java? It actually is. My current email client is based on Eclipse. IMHO, Eclipse is the best IDE for Java. For other languages, I think there are better choices. For all languages, I tend to do the heavy coding in emacs and just fix minor compiler errors in the IDE. emacs autorevert keeps everything in sync.