[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Emacs in Eclipse

[Ron Winacott <first_dot_last@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You do not want to do that! I too am an emacs user and went looking for 
the same thing when I first started to eclipse. But after using the 
eclipse editor (and the lava editor more to the point) the code assist, 
and other features made me drop the idea of using emacs ever again to do 
Java development.

You can configure eclipse to use emacs (like) key bindings, but I found 
this to be a problem with overloading some hot keys. I have never spent 
the time to build a real emacs key binding that an emacs user could get 
into. So, I run with the default key bindings for now. The only problem 
I have is bouncing between the two editors, ^V, ^C, ^X still mess me up 
in the emacs world.

Give it a try, use the default editor and you too will not look back. 
Trust me, Have I ever lead you astray before :-)

Hope this helps,
	ronw

PS: If you ever do get a better emacs key binding map setup in eclipse, 
I would be interested in it.

Matthias Fechner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i have heard now a lot about eclipse and it looks really great, but what 
> im missing is my emacs. :)
>
> Is there plugin available to use emacs in eclipse as editor?