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I am a long time Emacs users but now I shamelessly admit I am an Eclipse user. Eclipse handles plugins really well. What I loath about Emacs is its plugin mana
by agentgt 15y ago
I am a long time Emacs users but now I shamelessly admit I am an Eclipse user.
Eclipse handles plugins really well. What I loath about Emacs is its plugin management. It is a PITA to download new plugins or update existing ones.
Also Eclipse generally understands the programming language your working on. The whole you have to use your mouse in Eclipse is total BS. In a simple keystroke I can navigate the type hierarchy of a class and or the call hierarchy of a method.... not to mention auto-completion.
For Scala, Java, Javascript, and XML I use Eclipse. For Python I use Emacs because its still the best editor for it.
If your using a JVM language give Eclipse a try. I'm glad I did.
IMHO IDE vs Emacs is becoming so Déjà vu of Emacs vs Vim.
- pivo 15y agoFor what it's worth, Emacs 24 has built in package management. It's arguably easier than using eclipse's package management.
- cksk 15y agoEl-get is a package manager that really helps with the plugins. It allows you to install them very easily and update them with just one command, among other things. https://github.com/dimitri/el-get https://github.com/dimitri/el-get
- kamaal 15y agoEclipse largely wins because for verbose languages it fills in the gaps in the templates pretty well. But for large text manipulation, automation, and non linear gains in productivity, Emacs is better designed to enable those than Eclipse.
- keypusher 15y agoHave you tried Pydev for Eclipse?