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Emacs for Xcode+ios Development

78 points by zaph0d 14y ago

JoelMcCracken 14y ago
I got excited, and then saw it was a blog post, not a repo. Which, I think, is an interesting reaction, itself. Completely separately, this looks like a great tutorial. I've been dragging my heels about getting into OS X/iOS development, and this just might be the kick in the pants I need.
- roupam 14y ago
  Hoping to make it a repo soon :)
coliveira 14y ago
That is nice, but I use vim. Any tutorial on how to do this from vim/MacVim?
- terhechte 14y ago
  For vim, there's lots of good stuff: - https://github.com/eraserhd/vim-ios https://github.com/eraserhd/vim-ios - http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2674 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2674 - Clang-Complete, which gives you XCode's Clang autocompletion in vim https://github.com/Rip-Rip/clang_complete https://github.com/Rip-Rip/clang_complete
- weaksauce 14y ago
  If you like Xcode you can try out the XVim[1] plugin for Xcode. It's still pretty alpha but it works pretty well for me. 1. https://github.com/JugglerShu/XVim https://github.com/JugglerShu/XVim
  - zachwill 14y ago
    Agreed, it's the best solution currently available. I use it daily.
    - weaksauce 14y ago
      That's good to hear. If you find any bugs we try to squash them as fast as we can if you add an issue. Good bug writers are a huge benefit with this type of plugin(tough to fix edge cases without this) so I encourage you to report any issues you encounter with a detailed bug report. Patches are always welcome too.
mej10 14y ago
This looks pretty excellent. I will be trying this out later.
scoopr 14y ago
For me the most interesting find here was fruitstrap, hadn't seen that before, and I had been looking few years ago! That'd make automated testing on device a lot more promising, and on cursory googling, people have used fruitstrap with jenkins.
eddieroger 14y ago
This might actually finally close the loop on doing some solid mobile development from my iPad (through Prompt or the like, of course). Not that I'd do heavy-duty coding on the road, but it'd be nice to try once or twice.
shootthemoon 14y ago
This looks great, but I prefer writing code via punch card. Any tutorial or options for me? Not quite sure about this fandangled command line business.
firesofmay 14y ago
Tried it. It works great! :)
protez 14y ago
It's just amazing. From this introduction, I learned how to generate TAGS and feed it to Emacs for the first time, and make up a custom "anything buffer" to capture any lines that I wish. Awesome X one million billion times. Thank you, roupam.
- roupam 14y ago
  I'm glad you liked it. :)

78 points by zaph0d 14y ago

I got excited, and then saw it was a blog post, not a repo. Which, I think, is an interesting reaction, itself. Completely separately, this looks like a great tutorial. I've been dragging my heels about getting into OS X/iOS development, and this just might be the kick in the pants I need.

roupam 14y ago
Hoping to make it a repo soon :)

coliveira 14y ago

That is nice, but I use vim. Any tutorial on how to do this from vim/MacVim?

terhechte 14y ago
For vim, there's lots of good stuff: - https://github.com/eraserhd/vim-ios https://github.com/eraserhd/vim-ios - http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2674 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2674 - Clang-Complete, which gives you XCode's Clang autocompletion in vim https://github.com/Rip-Rip/clang_complete https://github.com/Rip-Rip/clang_complete
weaksauce 14y ago
If you like Xcode you can try out the XVim[1] plugin for Xcode. It's still pretty alpha but it works pretty well for me. 1. https://github.com/JugglerShu/XVim https://github.com/JugglerShu/XVim
- zachwill 14y ago
  Agreed, it's the best solution currently available. I use it daily.
  - weaksauce 14y ago
    That's good to hear. If you find any bugs we try to squash them as fast as we can if you add an issue. Good bug writers are a huge benefit with this type of plugin(tough to fix edge cases without this) so I encourage you to report any issues you encounter with a detailed bug report. Patches are always welcome too.

mej10 14y ago

This looks pretty excellent. I will be trying this out later.

scoopr 14y ago

For me the most interesting find here was fruitstrap, hadn't seen that before, and I had been looking few years ago! That'd make automated testing on device a lot more promising, and on cursory googling, people have used fruitstrap with jenkins.

eddieroger 14y ago

This might actually finally close the loop on doing some solid mobile development from my iPad (through Prompt or the like, of course). Not that I'd do heavy-duty coding on the road, but it'd be nice to try once or twice.

shootthemoon 14y ago

This looks great, but I prefer writing code via punch card. Any tutorial or options for me? Not quite sure about this fandangled command line business.

firesofmay 14y ago

Tried it. It works great! :)

protez 14y ago

It's just amazing. From this introduction, I learned how to generate TAGS and feed it to Emacs for the first time, and make up a custom "anything buffer" to capture any lines that I wish. Awesome X one million billion times. Thank you, roupam.

roupam 14y ago
I'm glad you liked it. :)