are there any IDEs which run in a shell instead of a gui. As i really don't like to use a mouse (except of scrolling, everything is faster for example in firefox using shortcuts).
I really like textual user interfaces (like gdb in tui mode) and it would be nice to have an ide which is fully controlable by keyboard (i'm currently learning emacs but it isn't really designed as an ide i think).
You can use Emacs as an IDE(with some script/package and setup) (take a look at this)
Emacs + ECB + JDEE: Java IDE
Emacs + Slime: Common Lisp IDE
Emacs + ECB + Cedet(and Xrefactory): C++ IDE(Alex Ott written a
great article about it)
Emacs + Pymacs + Ropemacs: Python IDE
emacs and vim can be - and are - both used as IDEs. I personally use emacs as IDE for PHP.
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Ok so i am trying to get started with lisp and slime and i am running into some problems. I have correctly installed emacs and slime and SBCL but i run into problems when trying to edit files. I am doing this all on mac osx lion though i dont think that makes a difference. So this maybe stupid but when i first enter the terminal i enter
$ emacs <myfile.lisp>
and then it opens up my file but then slime is not running so i do..
M-x: slime
but when i do that is now gone and all i see is the "REPL" (i think) anyway it just shows me
*
and then i can enter things like
*15
15
but now i can't get back to my file so that i can compile it. Could somone please hlep me through this? Thank you!
Try C-x← and C-x→, that switches the current window's buffer to the previous or next buffer.
For a more interactive approach, split the screen vertically C-x2 (or horizontally C-x3), so you may see your code and try something out on the REPL. You may switch windows with C-xo (remember, O as in Other). You may close a window (not the buffer) with C-x0.
However, you'd better search for an Emacs tutorial, as all of this is very basic. I also recommend you start with a graphical Emacs, such as Emacs for Mac OS X. Some people prefer other versions, which integrate better with Mac OS X but also have lots of different keybindings and come with extra packages. I personally prefer having similar installations and keybindings in whatever OS I'm using.
I've been using Emacs as a PHP IDE for quite some time now (with emacs-starter-kit, ECB, & Geben). With each new release for emacs-starter-kit or Emacs 24, ECB introduces new errors & window issues. It doesn't seem well-maintained anymore (last release was 2009).
Wondering if there's a project-manager / IDE emacs plugin that's today's defacto? Something that does file-browsing (like sr-speedbar), method list, possibly even auto ctags?
The answer is that unfortunately no such thing exists. emacs-nav offer a file browser similar to the one in ECB and you can use something like helm to jump to various stuff in your project (like files, tags, imenu entries, etc). Small utils like projectile might also be helpful to you.
All in all using heavyweight tools like ECB is not the Emacs way and I guess this is the reason while its development has stagnated - few Emacs users would use a tool like that given there a smaller more flexible alternatives.
I'm use sr-speedbar to file browser
http://emacswiki.org/emacs/SrSpeedbar
I'm using ecb on emacs-24 with no problems. the only thing I had to add to my .emacs was:
(setq stack-trace-on-error t)
it prevents from throwing errors on ecb startup. What kind of window issues do you experience?
According to this answer, Emacs + Slime already has much advanced functionality. So how can I get syntax coloring, auto-completion, and perhaps even version control management, set up and running in my copy of Lispbox?
If it's of any help, I have installed Lispbox on Mac OS Lion.
Syntax highlighting should already be working as soon as you load a lisp file in Emacs, regardless of whether you've got SLIME installed or not. If it's not, try doing M-x font-lock-mode and see if that turns it on.
Version control isn't provided by Emacs or SLIME, but Emacs can integrate with pretty much any version control system you care to use. I recommend Mercurial or Git. Emacs should start vc-mode automatically when you open a file that is in one of the supported version control systems. The manual includes extensive documentation, do M-: (info "(emacs)Version Control") to jump right to it.
Auto-completion is more complicated. There is more than one way to skin this cat, but for Lisp SLIME's default method should be good enough. Use M-TAB to complete the symbol at point.
I would like to use Emacs to edit some VB6 files but Emacs does not appear to have any of built-in niceties of other languages such as syntax highlighting, etc.
Any plugins/extensions? What else can I do to make Emacs an acceptable and comfortable IDE for VB?
Visual Basic mode
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/visual-basic-mode.el
edit: after installing this script (see script for instructions) syntax highlighting can be toggled via the options menu -- emacs calls it 'font-lock' :)
See these links:
xahlee.info
Emacs wiki
For VB.NET, there is also a VBNET mode.
I have been doing some java development lately and have started using Eclipse. For the most part, I think it is great, but being a C/C++ guy used to doing all of his editing in vim, I find myself needlessly hitting the Esc key over and over.
It would be really nice if I got all the nice features of Eclipse, but still could do basic editing the same way I can in vim. Anyone know of any Eclipse pluggins that would help with this?
Vrapper:
an Eclipse plugin which acts as a wrapper for Eclipse text editors to provide a Vim-like input scheme for moving around and editing text.
Unlike other plugins which embed Vim in Eclipse, Vrapper imitates the behaviour of Vim while still using whatever editor you have opened in the workbench. The goal is to have the comfort and ease which comes with the different modes, complex commands and count/operator/motion combinations which are the key features behind editing with Vim, while preserving the powerful features of the different Eclipse text editors, like code generation and refactoring...
There is this plugin that costs $20+
http://satokar.com/viplugin/
I use it and it works great, you've got basic vi movement commands and a set of others.
Here is an open source, free plugin but i've never been able to get it working (i'm on a mac).
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vimplugin/
You can also go the other way and get eclipse code completion inside vim.
http://eclim.sourceforge.net/
You basically run an instance of Eclipse and you will be working inside vim. They just released a version compatible with Eclipse 3.4.
New plugin I've started using
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/viable-vim-eclipse
Viable has pretty much what you are looking for along with some extra features which none of the other plugins for eclipse seem to have, like some support for visual block mode, command line history, window splitting, and piping external commands.
It is pay ($15.00 CAD) but free to tree with all the features. I personally like it better than the other solutions.