Makes eclipse on the mac usable

I seriously want to kiss you guys. It makes using eclipse on the mac possible without all the weird command key weirdness. It works like I want it to. Seriously, awesome.

Life changing

Both Emacs and Eclipse are fantastic productivity multipliers. Emacs+ X Eclipse is a no-compromise, certifiable winner. When I stumbled across Emacs+, my heartbeat soared. Life is good.

Great Plugin

Hi All,

I was first a lisp programmer (can we say this now :-)) and must have emacs. This is a great addition to the tool set and is a slick integration into eclipse. A solid set of commands makes life easy for those of us who just don't have the time (or desire) to learn another set of bindings. Our focus is on products and patients - people. We don't want to think about key bindings or our IDE - thank you Mark for making all of our lives better.

Many thanks!

Evan Charles Smith, MD, MS
Director of Science and Technology
Daedalus Software, Inc.

Emacs+ makes Eclipse usable

I've been using and *loving* Emacs since the dawn of time and the key bindings and functionality of Emacs are hard-wired into my fingers and brain by now. Before Emacs+ came along, I found Eclipse to be a complete bear to use, as years of muscle memory and knowing how to get things done without even thinking about it, were not only useless in Eclipse, but in fact detrimental.

Emacs+ has fixed all of this for me. Now using Eclipse is nearly as seamless as using Emacs, plus I get all the features of a modern IDE. It's practically the best of all worlds. The only thing I still really miss from Emacs is M-q filling of "//" comments.

I should also point out that this is far more than a simple set of key-bindings. It faithfully reproduces a lot of subtle Emacs behavior that you take for granted, until it's not there.

A must for Emacs-trained Eclipse users

If your fingers are bent towards Emacs keybinding, this is really a must-have. For example, it handles ^S ^W which I missed painfully in the standard Eclipse Emacs binding.

Can a visual effect similar to `transient-mark-mode` be added?

Thank you very very much for your help to the "select balanced expression":) Now it is like boosted with nitrogen when editing in Eclipse.

And it would be really enjoyment if we emacs users can have the transient-mark-mode effect in emacs: highlight the region between the mark and the point as the point moves around.

Thank you very much again for the help on the "select balanced expression"!!

Truly shines on the mac

I agree with everything everyone said, but I have to say that the emacs integration truly sings on the mac because of the use of command instead of ctrl for most of the standard eclipse functions. I had avoided emacsy keybindings before because they would sometimes clobber other useful eclipse keybinding functions. But since emacs stuff on the mac uses ctrl, almost all other keybindings are left untouched.

This plugin is light years better than just the standard emacs keybindings that come with eclipse due to the buffer management, splitting of buffers with keybindings etc.

This changed how I use eclipse. Truly well done.

My feedback on Emacs+

I've been using Eclipse for quite a few years, but I've been using Emacs for much, much longer. Although I long ago concluded that most of my source code development would be done in Eclipse, I still find Emacs an invaluable tool for its text manipulation features. When I first discovered the Emacs+ plugin for Eclipse, I knew this would be an important tool for me. I tend to prefer the Eclipse key bindings, but I integrate specific Emacs+ bindings and also declare my own. This tool helps me get things done more efficiently than if I had to rely on Eclipse alone.