[osflash] [OT] one editor for everything (emacs)

[hank williams]

On 1/3/07, Austin Haas <austin at pettomato.com> wrote:
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>
> That's good to hear. I've heard nothing but great things about Eclipse.
>
> I didn't know that it was so easy to extend, though. I thought that you
> had to compile a plug-in and install it?
>
> To contrast, in Emacs, you can just switch to the *scratch* buffer, type a
> couple lines of code, hit ctrl-c, ctrl-e, and now that code is active in
> your system. Another benefit about it being that quick is that you can
> revise the code as you work. For instance, when I first wrote that "function
> tracer", I forgot to include the "static" keyword. The first I time I traced
> a function with "static" in it, it didn't work, but it took literally 10
> seconds to fix and keep coding.


This does sound cool. I bet a scripting engine like this could be added to
eclipse jdt and it would be cool.

Hank
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