Re: GNU Emacs as a lightweight Java IDE (Debugging)

[Pankaj Jangid]

> IMHO LSP is to VSCode what CEDET Semantic is to Emacs. Only CEDET is a
> tad better and it predates LSP by almost two decades.
> LSP offloads all language related editing to a language specific external
> service. This overlooks the fact that programming languages are more
> similar in their structure than there are differences. CEDET seems to have
> beautifully captured this idea. For a demo, I've been able to use the
> refactoring logic to extract method that I'd written for Java to refactor
> Elisp code!!
>
> For further discussion on the subject, you might want to go through this
> thread
> https://sourceforge.net/p/cedet/mailman/cedet-semantic/?viewmonth=201911

Thanks for sharing the insight and the resource.