Friday September 02, 2005 Emacs + Xrefactory
This morning when I woke up, I realized that it was about time to get out of the closet and confess to the world that I'm an addicted Emacs user. I gotta say that I did use a couple of IDE's in the past few months, but really nothing gives me that same sense of being in control of the universe as when I use Emacs. Face it: Emacs is like Cocaine for programmers.
There used to be a time in the past when support for Java wasn't really that great. But over the past few years, I started to use a tool called Xrefactory. This is the only IDE for which I actually ever payed money. (If I remember well, it was about 30 bucks.) And it was worth every penny.
So I'm telling you this today because Emacs is - as we speak - indexing a source directory that simply broke every other IDE, and I know from experience that Xrefactory used to be able to deal with such large code bases. Apart from that, it's just good to know that whenever you feel like using Emacs in a software development project, take a look at Xrefactory.
( Sep 02 2005, 09:43:27 AM CEST ) Permalink Comments [0]