Emacs is sexy

I've been using Emacs for over 15 years now and I do almost all my work in it. The two things that I still haven't found good solutions for in emacs are available out of the box in almost every editor today:

1. Autocomplete of methods, classes, variables etc 2. Auto import statement organisation

Yes I am aware of JDEE for #2 and I am aware of emacswiki/autocomplete but none of those solutions are as smooth, well integrated or work well enough like they do in atom or visual studio.

If someone was to rethink the problem from the ground up and solve it in an elegant and efficient way my life would be complete.

Re: Emacs is sexy

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Post by agumonkey » Wed, May 10, 2017, 7:58 PM UTC

kt9 wrote: post #4

I've been using Emacs for over 15 years now and I do almost all my work in it. The two things that I still haven't found good solutions for in emacs are available out of the box in almost every editor today: 1. Autocomplete of methods, classes, variables etc 2. Auto import statement organisation Yes I am aware of JDEE for #2 and I am aware of emacswiki/autocomplete but none of those solutions are as smooth, well inte…

is JDEE based on CEDET ? CEDET is a proper abstraction for this but IIRC it's hard to use and a bit too slow.

Re: Emacs is sexy

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Post by agumonkey » Wed, May 10, 2017, 7:58 PM UTC

analognoise wrote: post #3

Can't access this at work - it's blocked as pornography. Hope I don't have to explain that in the log to anyone - "No really, it's a text editor..."

1yo http://archive.is/h3vZ0

Re: Emacs is sexy

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Post by benaiah » Wed, May 10, 2017, 7:59 PM UTC

kt9 wrote: post #4

I've been using Emacs for over 15 years now and I do almost all my work in it. The two things that I still haven't found good solutions for in emacs are available out of the box in almost every editor today: 1. Autocomplete of methods, classes, variables etc 2. Auto import statement organisation Yes I am aware of JDEE for #2 and I am aware of emacswiki/autocomplete but none of those solutions are as smooth, well inte…

Emacs features vary wildly in support from language to language - in Go, for instance, it's very easy to get both those working, while in Java it requires something more complicated such as eclim. company-mode is by far the best completion frontend, but the quality of the completions is dependent on how good the backend is, which varies a lot.

Re: Emacs is sexy

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Post by conistonwater » Wed, May 10, 2017, 7:59 PM UTC

kt9 wrote: post #4

I've been using Emacs for over 15 years now and I do almost all my work in it. The two things that I still haven't found good solutions for in emacs are available out of the box in almost every editor today: 1. Autocomplete of methods, classes, variables etc 2. Auto import statement organisation Yes I am aware of JDEE for #2 and I am aware of emacswiki/autocomplete but none of those solutions are as smooth, well inte…

Is that a Java-specific thing? My experience with C++ is that ever since libclang became widely used, autocompletion works really well—but that's because libclang is so good. Is there an analog of libclang for Java?

Re: Emacs is sexy

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Post by tkamat29 » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:00 PM UTC

Emacs itself isn't sexy; the sole reason I use emacs is the power and extensibility offered by emacs lisp. If vim used elisp instead of shudders vimscript, I would use it in a heartbeat.

Re: Emacs is sexy

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Post by faragon » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:01 PM UTC

ubercow wrote: post #2

Obligatory https://www.vim.sexy/

Thanks God! :-)