Comments on: Emacs Code Browser

By: Charl P. Botha

Charl P. Botha — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:01:04 +0000

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.

By: albert

albert — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:47:16 +0000

Just tried it with Emacs 21.3 on Windows. YEAH!

By: Charl P. Botha

Charl P. Botha — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:35:11 +0000

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. :)

By: goof

goof — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:33:04 +0000

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.

By: PW

PW — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:39:26 +0000

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!!

By: Charl P. Botha

Charl P. Botha — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:25:28 +0000

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.

By: PW

PW — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:09:07 +0000

HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAH – Benjamin you rock! 11/10 for that observation. It’s great ;-)

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:05:11 +0000

“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

By: Charl P. Botha

Charl P. Botha — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:45:56 +0000

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.

By: PW

PW — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:23:29 +0000

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 ;-)