Re: [path] refactored ReplPane.enter() / cleanups

[Alex Mitchell <lexaay at gmail dot com>]

I've been using Eclipse with the Schemeway plugin for some time now, which seems reasonably good, although I just use it as an editor, and generally run my code from the command line, as it seems to be a bit buggy when used to run code.

Alex

On Apr 13, 2011, at 1:39 AM, Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> wrote:

> On 04/11/2011 10:01 AM, Charles Turner wrote:
>> p.s. What's the typical Kawa development environment? I noticed there's
>> a NetBeans project, but there doesn't seem to be a way to configure
>> NetBeans to indent according to GNU conventions. In fact, certain areas
>> of Java just don't seem to lend themselves to such guidelines, like
>> nested classes, which the GNU indent program doesn't handle properly. I
>> could drop back to Emacs and change the indenting style easily enough,
>> but NetBeans has quite a lot of convenience feature I haven't managed to
>> add robustly to Emacs, yet. The CEDET mode is just too flaky for me.
> 
> I mostly use Emacs, but I sometimes use NetBeans, mostly for searching
> for usages, or for refactoring (like renaming).
> 
> Indeed, making NetBeans indent to GNU conventions seems impossible.
> I did manage to get Eclipse to do it, but I haven't used Eclipse much.
> 
> I have considered changing the Kawa coding style to match Sun's.
> It would ease use of tools like NetBeans, and it would make my life
> slightly easier when switching back and forth between Kawa and work-related
> Java code.
> 
> It's one of those things where changing is always seems more hassle than
> muddling through ...  If NetBeans could be made to have OK Scheme/Kawa support
> (at least indentation and parenthesis matching for the editors, and compiler
> integration with error message highlighting) that might be enough motivation to
> switch.  Or perhaps Eclipse's SchemeWay is good enough?
> -- 
>    --Per Bothner
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