Re: Help for eclipse

[adrians]

Emanuel, so based on your extensive experience with Eclipse it's a total pain? 
Right. I can tell you from having used if for a heck of a lot longer than you 
used it for that, configured with the proper settings, it can be significantly 
snappier than Emacs - at least under Windows. In fact the general clunkiness of 
Emacs' scrolling still bothers the heck out of me. As for which of these two 
environments is easier to get accustomed to for someone new to them, please 
don't suggest that it's Emacs. For years now, Eclipse has had straightforward 
UI discoverability through the use of Ctrl-3 which allows you to search through 
all commands, views, menus, etc., from one spot.

Just to be clear, I'm not contesting Emacs' greater extensibility and power 
overall, just your statement that Eclipse is "a pain" and, by implication, that 
Emacs is not, from a noob's perspective.

On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 7:55:24 PM UTC-4, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> edu500ac@gmail.com writes:
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> > I must have done something wrong, because Eclipse is
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> > proving to be very slow in my machine.
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> I don't think you did anything wrong. Eclipse is a
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> total pain. I only used it once in a school project
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> with a couple of people so for the sake of not making a
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> fuss I played along. I'm never doing that again, and my
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> experience with Eclipse told me there is absolutely no
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> hope for that piece of software. And it is of course no
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> coincidence that people use if for Java...
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> > While Emacs start up time is considerably less than 1
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> > second
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> Also it doesn't really matter as the best usage is to
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> start it once, then keep it open. Don't use it to open
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> files from the shell, i.e., once for every file (or
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> group of files). Launch Emacs once automatically, then
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> open files from within Emacs.
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