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RE: Emacs and Java
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Ludwig, Mark |
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RE: Emacs and Java |
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Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:35:18 +0000 |
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francesco Mazzoli
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 6:25 AM
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Emacs and Java
>
> Hi,
>
> As much as I dislike Java, I find myself having to write Java code from time
> to
> time, and I'm sure that a lot of you are in the same situation.
>
> Given that, I find it very surprising that support for the Java language in
> Emacs is abysmal.
>
> I tried:
>
> * java-mode: does not support any modern Java construct, and with
> modern I
> mean >= Java 5 (generics, foreach loops, enums).
> * JDEE: seems to be completely unmaintained and barely working with
> modern
> emacsen, and lacking support for post-2004 Java as well.
> * malabar-mode <https://github.com/espenhw/malabar-mode/>:
> promises support
> for what JDEE is lacking. Building with stock Maven and Emacs on Ubuntu
> 12.04 fails. There is a fork
> (<https://github.com/buzztaiki/malabar-mode>)
> that seems more maintained but building fails there as well with a
> different
> error.
>
> So it seems that there is no way to at least edit comfortably Java code, let
> alone have flymake, semantic features, etc. This seems a huge gap in what is
> the best editor out there.
>
> Am I correct, or is there hope in some project I haven't considered?
> malabar-mode seems to be the best candidate (if you can get it working) but
> frankly I'm not that comfortable using it since it pulls a huge number of
> dependencies and I don't want something to fancy anyway.
I use cc-mode, which does a reasonable job for my Java work.
I have to confess to being unhappy about the fact that cc-mode knows nothing
about the object-oriented nature of Java. I make up for that myself through
heavy use of tags, which I build with custom extras to pick up interface
definitions.
Note further that I have not tried the current etags (v24), which might pick up
interface definitions....
Hope this helps,
Mark
- Emacs and Java, Francesco Mazzoli, 2012/09/14
- RE: Emacs and Java,
Ludwig, Mark <=
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Re: Emacs and Java, Leo, 2012/09/14
Re: JDEE help (was: Emacs and Java), Francesco Mazzoli, 2012/09/15