Re: IDE versus emacs

[Óscar Fuentes]

Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com> writes:

> The Eclipse developers should be persuaded somehow to separate
> the completion/refactoring stuff into a separate library. Is 
> there a reason why this part is tied to their GUI editor? If it
> were a separate library then any editor could use it, not just 
> Eclipse.

Right. Something similar is mostly done for C# on Windows. Idebridge [1]
uses the SharpDevelop libraries for smart code completion and online
documentation. It works quite well once you patch it a bit (see the
Issues page on the project database)

1: http://code.google.com/p/idebridge/