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Using Emacs or VI for Java is something for masochists. Helping them with refactoring support would take away their fun/pain. Doesn't use the Java LSP the Eclip

Using Emacs or VI for Java is something for masochists. Helping them with refactoring support would take away their fun/pain. Doesn't use the Java LSP the Eclipse IDE? Maybe it would just be easier to configure your IDE like emacs.

dmortin 7y ago
Unlike VIM people don't use emacs for the keybindings, so you can't just configure the IDE to work like emacs, because IDEs do not have those features (e.g. creating quick throwaway functions for some current task which can be inserted into the editor live, without restarting, etc.) If Emacs has access to a refactoring library and completions via LSP then it could have the strength of Emacs combined with the strong language support of IDEs. I'm saying this as a long time Emacs user who also used Android Studio a lot for Java programming, so I can appreciate the fortes of both sides of the fence.