Re: Kickstarter for Emacs

[Richard Riley]

Tom <address@hidden> writes:

> Tassilo Horn <tassilo <at> member.fsf.org> writes:
>> 
>> Not sure how well that works right now, but that might be a rather cheap
>> option to catch up on Java support in Emacs.  The downside of this
>> approach is of course that you still need Eclipse...
>
> Yes, this is also an option which needs much less time to effort
> to implement, though I think people were much less likely to fund
> such a solution if they would still need to use Eclipse. 
>
> So this implementation would be more like a best effort, "working on it
> in my free time" version than full time, crowdfunded version.
>

In addition, like JDE, its more theory than practice and I had
considerable difficulty anyone who actually had it working and actively
used it. And gave up. Java support in Emacs isn't at the same level as
other languages, that's for sure.