From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: Paul Michael Reilly <pmr@pajato.com>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Neat features in Eclipse editor
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:36:19 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r6e2phkc.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873aqia0eh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sat\, 22 Mar 2008 17\:56\:06 -0400")
>>>>> "Chong" == Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
>> * "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.
Chong> What kind of user interface does Eclipse provide for this?
The user interface for a perspective is that there is a list of
perspectives on a toolbar-ish thing (the overflow turns into a
dropdown menu). Clicking switches perspectives.
As I recall for some operations, Eclipse will automatically switch
perspectives for you. I think the first time it will ask if you want
this behavior in the future; e.g. if you run the debugger, it will
switch to the debug perspective and ask if you want to always do that
when debugging.
In a perspective you can rearrange the various sub-windows; Eclipse
just remembers where you put everything, plus what is open or closed.
In case it matters, in Eclipse a perspective is more than just an
Emacs window configuration; a perspective can change the content of
various views. Perspectives tend to be kind of heavyweight, as well.
E.g., in the Java perspective, the file browser thingy will by default
show a java package/class-based view rather than a strictly file-based
view.
At least, this is my recollection. I haven't used Eclipse this past
year, but I did use it daily for a couple years before that.
Most distros package Eclipse these days. It isn't hard to give it a
whirl :-)
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-22 21:36 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 [this message]
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
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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