js2-mode

Installed js2-mode the other day and was amazed with the quality of this package. Id does have some bugs, like indenting the line twice will bring the indentation back to where it was (one of the great things about the Emacs indention engine is that there’s always one correct indentation level for each line according [...]

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flyspell-prog-mode

I tried out flyspell-prog-mode for the first time today. It’s an on the fly spell checker for Emacs that understand what’s programming code and what’s human text.
Pretty cool. Now, there’s no excuse for having typos in the API documentation!

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Finally got real time compilation to work in Emacs

Thanks to the blog post at www.credmp.org, I’ve got Java flymake support working in Emacs. It works surprisingly well (and fast) using the Eclipse compiler.
When setting it up, be sure to get the ecj.jar off the Eclipse website, I tried first with the ecj.jar supplied with the Debian package and that didn’t suffice.
Currently, [...]

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The never ending argument

I’ve started on an article concerning “why I use Emacs for J2EE development”, I’m so tired of the repetive arguments with IDEA and Eclipse users… You may read it here: http://www.skybert.nu/pages/computers/emacs/the_never_ending_argument.html

From the introduction:
Always when meeting a new java environment, such as starting a new job, joinging a new project or teaming up with the local [...]

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Getting Emacs to calm down

I’ve been playing with the CVS version of Emacs for quite some time (years, actually), but always dismissed it for various reasons (broken SVN support, incompatible with add-on modes etc).
The last hammer was the CPU load going through the roof whenever using JDEE. I did a wee research on the topic, and it turned [...]

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