emacs-eclim

This project brings some of the great eclipse features to emacs developers. It is based on the eclim project, which provides eclipse features for vim.

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This project brings some of the great eclipse features to emacs developers. It is based on the eclim project, which provides eclipse features for vim.

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nyir·Nov 8, 2014

At least for Java (and probably most other languages) (emacs-)eclim can leverage Eclipse functionality (for Emacs, Vim, ...). So you'll get the same completion, refactoring methods and so on. https://github.com/senny/emacs-eclim, http://eclim.org/

In Big things to expect from Emacs 25

tikhonj·Sep 28, 2013

I know of two modes for OCaml: TypeRex[1] and Merlin[2]. I've used both, and they both work reasonably well. The problem with TypeRex is that it requires changing your build, so it's not an easy option for companies that have some sort of custom build system in place. Happily, by the time I got around to working at a company like that, somebody had written Merlin which does not need anything like that. It even worked with js_of_ocaml, which was very impressive. I thought it was a very good tool. [1]: http://www.typerex.org/ [2]: http://kiwi.iuwt.fr/~asmanur/blog/merlin/ Emacs also has good support for a few other languages. Haskell has ghc-mod[3] and scion[4], for example. [3]: http://www.mew.org/~kazu/proj/ghc-mod/en/ [4]: https://github.com/nominolo/scion Similarly, there is ENSIME[5] for Scala. [5]: https://github.com/aemoncannon/ensim

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e You can also use eclim[6] with Emacs, which integrates with Eclipse to offer rich functionality for Java. [6]: https://github.com/senny/emacs-eclim Of course, Emacs has language-aware editing for Emacs Lisp by default :). You can get similar support for most other popular dynamically typed languages as well. So yes, Emacs does support plenty of languages like that, although almost always through a plugin. Happily, with the new package manager, installing and managing plugins is now trivial.

In Why we're supporting Typed Clojure

umbramei·Nov 6, 2011

For those that didn't read through the entire linked page, there is also an Eclim client for Emacs under active development (https://github.com/senny/emacs-eclim). I don't know that it's quite as feature-rich as the Vim version, and it's certainly less well-documented, but it does add some nifty IDE features to Emacs without forcing you to do your development inside Eclipse itself.

In Eclim - bringing Eclipse functionality to the Vim editor

mark_h·Sep 4, 2010

Nice, thanks! (Hmm, I wonder how much it relies on maven..) Now that I remember (I haven't tried it yet), there's also this: http://github.com/senny/emacs-eclim (a headless eclipse instance providing eclipse features inside emacs)

In My .emacs File (Steve Yegge)