Did you know that (X)Emacs could do this? Now I just have to find a frikking package for my Debian Stable.
10 Comments to “Emacs Code Browser”
PW said...
March 12, 2004
Not bad - starting to look like Visual Slickedit. But it will never quite get there. (Sometimes paying for software has its benefits.) http://www.slickedit.com - best editor IN THE WORLD. And it runs on anyting from Linux to ZX Spectrum. If you’re serious about coding you’re already using it so I don’t have to convince anyone
That’s a typo, honestly! I knew what the difference was even before it became hip to rant about it!!
Durn.
PW said...
March 12, 2004
Charl, you’ve mellowed out man! WOW. We tried you on your two known BIG RANT(tm) buttons, code editors and spelling/semantics. Neither worked. Impressive man!!
I did play with oo-browser (at S3, when I was still the only employee and found it powerful, but far too obscure and high-maintenance. At least with ecb, I can get quite far just by clicking on stuff.
I can recommend XEmacs 21.4 on Windows and XEmacs 21.4.15 on Linux, both with the latest xemacs sumo package tarball and the absolute latest ECB hand-installed from ecb.sf.net.
On Windows there were some bugs with earlier versions of ecb, especially with the directory browser.
10 Comments to “Emacs Code Browser”
March 12, 2004
Not bad - starting to look like Visual Slickedit. But it will never quite get there. (Sometimes paying for software has its benefits.) http://www.slickedit.com - best editor IN THE WORLD. And it runs on anyting from Linux to ZX Spectrum. If you’re serious about coding you’re already using it so I don’t have to convince anyone
March 12, 2004
SlickEdit is not bad. I do have a license and frequently use it when editing C++.
It’s Python support leaves much to be desired though.
March 12, 2004
“It’s Python support”, Charl?
I seem to remember that you wrote something about that yourself, once…
Yes, here it is:
http://cpbotha.net/weblogs/cpbotha/archives/000842.html
March 12, 2004
HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAH - Benjamin you rock! 11/10 for that observation. It’s great
March 12, 2004
argh argh argh argh
That’s a typo, honestly! I knew what the difference was even before it became hip to rant about it!!
Durn.
March 12, 2004
Charl, you’ve mellowed out man! WOW. We tried you on your two known BIG RANT(tm) buttons, code editors and spelling/semantics. Neither worked. Impressive man!!
March 16, 2004
Of all these types of (X)Emacs things, I found oo-browser to be the closest to my liking. I think it’s not very “standard” though.
March 16, 2004
I did play with oo-browser (at S3, when I was still the only employee
and found it powerful, but far too obscure and high-maintenance. At least with ecb, I can get quite far just by clicking on stuff. 
March 19, 2004
Just tried it with Emacs 21.3 on Windows. YEAH!
March 19, 2004
I can recommend XEmacs 21.4 on Windows and XEmacs 21.4.15 on Linux, both with the latest xemacs sumo package tarball and the absolute latest ECB hand-installed from ecb.sf.net.
On Windows there were some bugs with earlier versions of ecb, especially with the directory browser.