[Info-vax] Editors, was: Re: VT keyboard replacement

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/8/2021 8:20 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 1:31:19 PM UTC+13, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 11/8/2021 3:30 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 7:53:04 AM UTC+13, Arne Vajhøj
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> EVE is mostly a super set of EDT functionality wise ...
>>>
>>> Except it was never saddled with anything so clunky as a “current
>>> direction” mode ...
>>>
>> ????
>>
>> EVE has direction.
> 
> When I used it, it did not. It had separate commands for movement in forward versus backward directions. Just like any other editor -- except EDT.

It did not have a status line with 3 items at the right where the
last one was direction?

>>> But then, Emacs is not an IDE. IDEs limit you to using their
>>> particular build systems, while Emacs doesn’t care what build system
>>> you want to use: whatever the command is to launch a build, you can
>>> bind it to a single custom keystroke.
>>>
>> ????
>>
>> Eclipse for Java supports its own build but also ant, maven and gradle.
> 
> So you have a choice of a Java-based build system, a build system based on Java, or even a Java-building system for building Java programs!

If you use a Java IDE then it makes sense to support all the commonly
used build systems for Java, but not support build systems used in
other languages.

If you use Eclipse C++ it supports builtin and makefile.

If you use Eclipse Rust it supports Cargo.

If you use Eclipse Scala it supports builtin and sbt.

Arne