| Current Forum: 15-211 Main Forum |
| Date: Wed Sep 12 2001 12:24 am |
| Author: Danish, Matt R. <mrd@cmu.edu> |
| Subject: Re: emacs and JDE |
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Define IDE.
Emacs/ILISP I would say is pretty integrated when it comes to
Common Lisp development. It will display the arguments for
the function you are typing in, and will look up the entry for it
in the Hyperspec using the Emacs WWW browser if you wish. And
of course you can easily take advantage of incremental compilation
of functions. So you don't have to actually leave Emacs while
developing.
Whether or not such a thing as that exists (or could exist)
for Java does not figure into whether Emacs is an IDE or not.
If you feel Emacs lacks certain integration you are welcome
to write it yourself.
Maybe I could just summarize all this by pointing out that
Emacs is not intrinsically unable to be an IDE, whereas the
sentiment I get from your post is the opposite.
Of course it can be argued that vim, or even any code editor
+ xterm + compiler + debugger is quite integrated. Depends on
your point of view I suppose.
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