Re: emacs IDE features

[Phillip Lord]

John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> Phillip Lord <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I'd add number 4. Support Java properly. It's one of the most common
>> languages in the world, and Emacs doesn't work with it.
>
> As a core Emacs developer who doesn't use Java, it's hard to make that a
> "mission statement" for the whole emacs-devel team.
>
> However, I'd very much like it if someone could step up and volunteer as "Java
> technical lead" to support this use case. I'd expect such a person to work
> with the maintainers to imagine a better environment -- in the context of our
> larger IDE discussion-- and engage others to help get the coding done. It is,
> as you say, a large user base.
>
> What do you think, Phillip? :)  Or anyone else?

There is a bit of a chicken and egg thing here. I don't use Java very
much these days either, and my own Emacs time is currently taken up with
other things.

We have seen some movement on the JDE mailing list recently, which has
been good, and we have the links between JDE and emacs-devel. So, we
already have this in place to some extent.

I don't mind trying to support any movement of code that needs to happen
from the various Java modes out there into core that I can. I think that
is the most I could commit to.

Phil