I have finally seen the Emacs light

Re:I have finally seen the Emacs light by mike_organon on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @02:31PM (#233276)

I learned emacs not too long ago, and I was amazed that the better principles were established so much earlier and abandoned for new tools. One thing about its philosophy I think makes it better is the consistency of everything being buffers, commands, and keystrokes. Eclipse has multiple kinds of buffers, views, panels, dialogs, and keys, menus, toolbars, docks, etc., that aren't interchangeable. It reminds me of the syntax philosophies of Lisp and Java - the tools follow the languages.

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Re:I have finally seen the Emacs light by j2d2 on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @03:30PM (#233371)

I use eclipse for Java still. Our project has something like 100,000 source files. Memorizing this lay-out is hard! There isn't much sense to it. Having the open-type shortcut is a life-saver. So is the type hierarchy browser.

Emacs is great for pretty much everything else though!

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Re:I have finally seen the Emacs light by msg on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @08:25PM (#233677)

Here's something like what I do at work. Syntax not quite correct, I'm sure. It's a C++ project, but you can probably adapt it to your situation. Making the TAGS file takes a while every now and then, so you might want to run it as a cron job.

shell:

   find rootdir1 rootdir2 ... rootdirN ".*\.[ch][ch]?" | etags > /convenient/dir/TAGS

.emacs:

   (visit-tags-table "/convenient/dir/TAGS")

need a class or function in emacs:

   (tags-apropos _regexp_)

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Re:I have finally seen the Emacs light by zenspider on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @06:42PM (#233624)

100,000 source files? and you haven't quit? you deserve eclipse. :P

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