I have been using Emacs+ for years now. I was flailing when support
stopped for a while. Emacs is in my muscle memory, and nothing is
comparable for me in efficiency. But the benefit only accrues if all
the functionality I use is present. That includes registers and
rectangle commands. I occasionally eyed PyCharm to replace
Eclipse. But Emacs+ is the most complete Emacs environment outside of
Emacs itself. Any editing environment short of that standard is a show
stopper for me.
I am not associated with the author; have never met him. But I
occasionally donate to keep the plugin going. The link is easily
overlooked. Search for "Donate here" within this page.
Submitted by Mark Burhans on Mon, 2020-11-09 14:10
I cannot get this to install on an Eclipse 2018 version. Unable to read repository at sites.google.com/a/mulgasoft.com/www/emacsplus/e4/update-site/content.xml.Connection reset.
Can you, or anyone else, help? I'd love to get back to using Emacs+ since the builtin does not have all the bells-and-whistles. sites.google.com/mulgasoft.com seems to be empty.
I am in the process of reviving emacs+ (and picking up java as I mostly develop in c++) It has a new home at "MORE LIKE THIS" Emacs+. I am successfully running the Emacs+ at that location on 2018-12 (4.10).
Thank you so much for this effort, Stan. Emacs+ absence is a showstopper for me in using Eclipse. I happily paid the original developer to add registers, and rectangle support at the time. I'm happy to personally support you as well.
I installed Eclipse 2018-12(4.10) as per your post above, but get "Unable to install selected solutions Emacs+" I used the drag-install-button method. Should I try another way? You find my contact info on the Web: "Andreas Paepcke".
When I attempt to install this into the new (2019.3 AKA 4.11) version of Eclipse it says it's no longer supported! Specifically it says "The following solutions are not compatible with this version of Eclipse - Emacs+".
Problems occurred while performing provisioning operation: org.codehaus.groovy.eclipse 2.6.1.xx-20120301-1300-e36-RELEASE is unknown in the solver!
org.codehaus.groovy.eclipse 2.6.1.xx-20120301-1300-e36-RELEASE is unknown in the solver!
Submitted by Jukka Jalava on Wed, 2015-08-05 08:44
Thank you for saving yet another old emacs geek!
Been struggling trying to decide whether I should try and learn the native eclipse or try to cope with the sort-of-like-emacs key settings.
Every so often an emacs shortcut like Alt-Ctrl-% just pops right from the spine on to the keyboard - AND NOW IT WORKS!
What a joy to see the prompt "Query-regexp:"
Submitted by Mark Henning on Thu, 2014-10-02 10:25
Since I started my computer career in college in 1986 on a Vax 11/780, we had a choice of two editors:
vi and emacs.
The ability to code extensions in emacs using elisp immediately warmed my geeky little heart and I was hooked.
My "editing fingers" are hard coded to emacs standard, and it always takes me a moment to adjust to another editing platform. However, now I can work comfortably in eclipse without spawning an external emacs session.
I spent few days on Juno without Emacs + and suddenly I realized that this is the most important plugin Eclipse has IMHO. It is not that difficult to work with Git or SVN without their plugins, but it is almost impossible for me to work without Emacs key bindings and standard functions accessible through ALT+X.
Eclipse guys, how comes you're not fixing bugs and let one of the most valuable and differentiating plugins to get unusable on the newer versions? I would expect you to establish a task force which will work with Mark and make Emacs + available (again) through Eclipse marketplace, but it seems that this is not the highest priority item on your list. Do you know the meaning of "differentiating functionality"? You've lost it!
Submitted by John Langley on Fri, 2013-10-04 11:59
It has a great implementation of Emacs Bindings AND... I don't know what I'm going to do now that Juno and Kepler are borked! (I.e. make it hard for this project to continue supporting Eclipse)
I've now been using Emacs+ since 2009 and still rely on it heavily. I just upgraded to Kepler, and Emacs+ is working fine so far. I understand that a lot has changed in the Eclipse implementation over its versions since Helios, so I'm grateful that the Emacs+ developer kept with it.
You mention as the first bullet point that there are keyboard macros, but when I do C-x ( it does not start recording a macro. How do you record and use the macro facilities in your extension? Also is there any documentation for this extension?
Just found this plugin for Eclipse. I have been an emacs user for years and this is an awesome plugin that really helps me work with eclipse much faster.
Emacs+ is working in Linux for me. I am still having problems in OS X, though, because the option key acts as an additional meta key (in addition to the command key) even after installing the additional OS X support package. I hope this will get sorted out soon and that Juno will become officially supported as well.
This is an absolute must have for me. I got very disappointed that the latest Juno release of Eclipse breaks Emacs+ to the point that I will have to stick with Indigo until hopefully it becomes available again.
The built-in Eclipse key bindings for Emacs are, um, underwelming. This plugin is a lifesaver. Without this plugin I would have to curse the world and return to Emacs. Please keep maintaining this. My donation is forthcoming.
Being an Emacs fan, I just cannot use Eclipse without this plugin. Very quality job. Looking forward to Juno support (cannot upgrade before this plugin matures)!
As a 22 year Emacs veteran, it's such a relief to be able to actually edit text productively on Eclipse.
Before, it felt like I had spent half of my life playing the piano and then having to try to work on a child's xylophone. Now my fingers just do what they do, and Eclipse does the right thing.
Thank you! I've wasted so many hours to get emacs IDE (JDEE) to
work, in vain. A stone has fallen of my shoulders, because emacs
keybindings are indispensable for efficiency!
Submitted by John Russell on Tue, 2011-07-12 20:53
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.
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.
Thanks Mark, this plugin is awesome.
I can finally enjoy the delights of a modern IDE without fighting muscle memory! I feel about 90% at home with the plugin.
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.
Submitted by Brian Hunter on Thu, 2010-01-21 17:21
It may not replicate everything that emacs can do, but it gets you pretty close. Not only that, but I requested a fairly complex feature and it was done in a day. That's flat out amazing.
Submitted by Douglas Alan on Tue, 2010-09-14 12:40
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.
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.
I had a problem with my key bindings, but a reinstall of Emacs+ seems to have straightened that out. Now it works great, and I don't think my old, emacs-trained fingers could ever go back!
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"!!
Submitted by John Russell on Sun, 2009-12-13 16:10
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.
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Best Emacs Environment Outside of Emacs
Submitted by Andreas Paepcke on Thu, 2020-10-22 11:12
I have been using Emacs+ for years now. I was flailing when support
stopped for a while. Emacs is in my muscle memory, and nothing is
comparable for me in efficiency. But the benefit only accrues if all
the functionality I use is present. That includes registers and
rectangle commands. I occasionally eyed PyCharm to replace
Eclipse. But Emacs+ is the most complete Emacs environment outside of
Emacs itself. Any editing environment short of that standard is a show
stopper for me.
I am not associated with the author; have never met him. But I
occasionally donate to keep the plugin going. The link is easily
overlooked. Search for "Donate here" within this page.
Re: Best Emacs Environment Outside of Emacs
Submitted by Mark Burhans on Mon, 2020-11-09 14:10
I cannot get this to install on an Eclipse 2018 version. Unable to read repository at sites.google.com/a/mulgasoft.com/www/emacsplus/e4/update-site/content.xml.Connection reset.
Can you, or anyone else, help? I'd love to get back to using Emacs+ since the builtin does not have all the bells-and-whistles. sites.google.com/mulgasoft.com seems to be empty.
Thanks for keeping this working
Submitted by Luis Garcés-Erice on Thu, 2020-03-12 06:06
I only created an account just to say thanks for keeping the plugin alive. Works fine with my 2019-12 Eclipse.
This is an unvaluable tool for me.
Emacs+ Revival
Submitted by Stan Cox on Wed, 2019-06-05 10:54
I am in the process of reviving emacs+ (and picking up java as I mostly develop in c++) It has a new home at "MORE LIKE THIS" Emacs+. I am successfully running the Emacs+ at that location on 2018-12 (4.10).
Re: Emacs+ Revival
Submitted by Andreas Paepcke on Thu, 2019-09-26 16:25
Thank you so much for this effort, Stan. Emacs+ absence is a showstopper for me in using Eclipse. I happily paid the original developer to add registers, and rectangle support at the time. I'm happy to personally support you as well.
I installed Eclipse 2018-12(4.10) as per your post above, but get "Unable to install selected solutions Emacs+" I used the drag-install-button method. Should I try another way? You find my contact info on the Web: "Andreas Paepcke".
Thank you again,
Andreas
No longer supported
Submitted by Andrew DeFaria on Wed, 2019-04-24 15:14
When I attempt to install this into the new (2019.3 AKA 4.11) version of Eclipse it says it's no longer supported! Specifically it says "The following solutions are not compatible with this version of Eclipse - Emacs+".
Re: No longer supported
Submitted by Andrew DeFaria on Mon, 2019-08-12 22:33
Another dead plugin. It's a shame!
Re: No longer supported
Submitted by Stan Cox on Thu, 2019-08-15 11:37
I am reviving emacs+, try
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/emacs-0
Re: Re: No longer supported
Submitted by Mark Burhans on Mon, 2020-11-09 14:13
Hey Stan, are you still reviving this? I cannot find the correct URL to go your revival of emacs+ .. the content/emacs-0 does not exist now.
Re: No longer supported
Submitted by Stan Cox on Wed, 2020-11-11 09:45
Mark Feber, the original developer, has resumed being the primary developer
mulgasoft domain registration expired on 03/01/2019
Submitted by Stefan Pachner on Wed, 2019-04-03 14:42
Seems that the download website has expired:
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www.mulgasoft.com
This domain registration expired on 03/01/2019.
Do you own this domain? Renew It Now!
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mulgasoft domain registration expired on 03/01/2019
Submitted by Stefan Pachner on Wed, 2019-04-03 14:42
Seems that the download website has expired:
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Welcome to
www.mulgasoft.com
This domain registration expired on 03/01/2019.
Do you own this domain? Renew It Now!
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Cannot be installed on Mars
Submitted by Missing name Mising name on Sun, 2016-01-24 02:06
Problems occurred while performing provisioning operation: org.codehaus.groovy.eclipse 2.6.1.xx-20120301-1300-e36-RELEASE is unknown in the solver!
org.codehaus.groovy.eclipse 2.6.1.xx-20120301-1300-e36-RELEASE is unknown in the solver!
Excellent!
Submitted by Jukka Jalava on Wed, 2015-08-05 08:44
Thank you for saving yet another old emacs geek!
Been struggling trying to decide whether I should try and learn the native eclipse or try to cope with the sort-of-like-emacs key settings.
Every so often an emacs shortcut like
Alt-Ctrl-%just pops right from the spine on to the keyboard - AND NOW IT WORKS!What a joy to see the prompt "Query-regexp:"
Best. Plugin. Ever!
Submitted by Mark Henning on Thu, 2014-10-02 10:25
Since I started my computer career in college in 1986 on a Vax 11/780, we had a choice of two editors:
vi and emacs.
The ability to code extensions in emacs using elisp immediately warmed my geeky little heart and I was hooked.
My "editing fingers" are hard coded to emacs standard, and it always takes me a moment to adjust to another editing platform. However, now I can work comfortably in eclipse without spawning an external emacs session.
Many Thanks to the authors and maintainers!
Can't see myself working on Eclipse without this plugin
Submitted by Vasiliy Zukanov on Tue, 2014-09-23 12:15
I spent few days on Juno without Emacs + and suddenly I realized that this is the most important plugin Eclipse has IMHO. It is not that difficult to work with Git or SVN without their plugins, but it is almost impossible for me to work without Emacs key bindings and standard functions accessible through ALT+X.
Eclipse guys, how comes you're not fixing bugs and let one of the most valuable and differentiating plugins to get unusable on the newer versions? I would expect you to establish a task force which will work with Mark and make Emacs + available (again) through Eclipse marketplace, but it seems that this is not the highest priority item on your list. Do you know the meaning of "differentiating functionality"? You've lost it!
The best emacs plugin
Submitted by B McCarthy on Tue, 2013-10-08 19:58
Yeah a Juno alpha! Keep it going! I've been so sad without it.
This is an absolutely invaluable plugin!
Submitted by John Langley on Fri, 2013-10-04 11:59
It has a great implementation of Emacs Bindings AND... I don't know what I'm going to do now that Juno and Kepler are borked! (I.e. make it hard for this project to continue supporting Eclipse)
Emacs+ Up to Date Through Large Changes in Eclipse Implemtation
Submitted by Andreas Paepcke on Wed, 2013-09-25 14:41
I've now been using Emacs+ since 2009 and still rely on it heavily. I just upgraded to Kepler, and Emacs+ is working fine so far. I understand that a lot has changed in the Eclipse implementation over its versions since Helios, so I'm grateful that the Emacs+ developer kept with it.
How do I use the Keyboard macros?
Submitted by Cory Koch on Thu, 2013-05-23 11:51
You mention as the first bullet point that there are keyboard macros, but when I do C-x ( it does not start recording a macro. How do you record and use the macro facilities in your extension? Also is there any documentation for this extension?
Thanks
Makes Eclipse usable
Submitted by Alexander Lamaison on Sun, 2013-05-12 13:07
Simply can't function without it.
Laren Mortensen
Submitted by Laren Mortensen on Thu, 2013-02-28 20:03
Just found this plugin for Eclipse. I have been an emacs user for years and this is an awesome plugin that really helps me work with eclipse much faster.
Juno support almost complete
Submitted by Drazen Lucanin on Mon, 2012-11-19 05:06
Emacs+ is working in Linux for me. I am still having problems in OS X, though, because the option key acts as an additional meta key (in addition to the command key) even after installing the additional OS X support package. I hope this will get sorted out soon and that Juno will become officially supported as well.
Awesome!
Submitted by Stephen Agneta on Sat, 2012-09-08 12:36
I can't live without it. Hopefully they will upgrade to Juno.
This Plugin Should be Included in Standard Ecliplse Release
Submitted by Nenad Kovacevic on Thu, 2012-09-06 15:30
This is an absolute must have for me. I got very disappointed that the latest Juno release of Eclipse breaks Emacs+ to the point that I will have to stick with Indigo until hopefully it becomes available again.
Not having this plugin would be a deal-breaker
Submitted by George Lippert on Sun, 2012-09-02 01:12
The built-in Eclipse key bindings for Emacs are, um, underwelming. This plugin is a lifesaver. Without this plugin I would have to curse the world and return to Emacs. Please keep maintaining this. My donation is forthcoming.
Great plugin
Submitted by FAX K.root on Thu, 2012-08-16 05:56
Being an Emacs fan, I just cannot use Eclipse without this plugin. Very quality job. Looking forward to Juno support (cannot upgrade before this plugin matures)!
Thank you!
Great extension
Submitted by Julien Charbon on Mon, 2012-08-06 09:49
Simply the best emacs extension for Eclipse
invaluable
Submitted by Michael Thome on Wed, 2012-08-01 15:23
I use emacs+ every day for both work and personal projects. It would be a significant hit to lose it for Juno on.
This is an essential tool
Submitted by Fred Richardson on Mon, 2012-07-30 21:40
This is an essential tool for my work. I find it very hard to be productive writing code without an emacs-like environment.
I hope that we can convince the author to support Juno in a future release. Perhaps a few donations will make it hard to refuse ;)
Incredibly useful
Submitted by David Medina on Thu, 2012-07-19 09:50
I would be lost without this plugin
We are doomed!
Submitted by Alfred Nathaniel on Sat, 2012-06-30 01:46
Emacs+ 3.6.5 does not work with Juno and apparently Mark has lost interest to make it work.
Do I really have to get used to default binding in may old days?
By far one of the most useful
Submitted by César Cordeiro on Sat, 2012-03-10 14:27
By far one of the most useful eclipse plugin out there.
Emacs+
Submitted by David Jones on Thu, 2012-03-08 08:17
ROCKS !
A lifesaver!
Submitted by Jonathan Abbey on Mon, 2011-12-12 16:36
A civilized environment on Eclipse, Hallelujah!
As a 22 year Emacs veteran, it's such a relief to be able to actually edit text productively on Eclipse.
Before, it felt like I had spent half of my life playing the piano and then having to try to work on a child's xylophone. Now my fingers just do what they do, and Eclipse does the right thing.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
so good!
Submitted by Missing name Mising name on Fri, 2011-08-19 04:03
Thank you! I've wasted so many hours to get emacs IDE (JDEE) to
work, in vain. A stone has fallen of my shoulders, because emacs
keybindings are indispensable for efficiency!
Makes eclipse on the mac usable
Submitted by John Russell on Tue, 2011-07-12 20:53
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.
Awesome
Submitted by Steve Karmesin on Wed, 2010-06-30 16:03
My productivity just went way, way up. Thank you! This is great!
-Steve
Life changing
Submitted by Patrick Winston on Sun, 2010-05-30 08:43
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.
Finally free
Submitted by Chris Grebeldinger on Fri, 2010-03-19 10:42
Thanks Mark, this plugin is awesome.
I can finally enjoy the delights of a modern IDE without fighting muscle memory! I feel about 90% at home with the plugin.
Great Plugin
Submitted by Evan Mising name on Fri, 2010-02-12 11:50
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.
A great plugin and a responsive developer
Submitted by Brian Hunter on Thu, 2010-01-21 17:21
It may not replicate everything that emacs can do, but it gets you pretty close. Not only that, but I requested a fairly complex feature and it was done in a day. That's flat out amazing.
Emacs+ makes Eclipse usable
Submitted by Douglas Alan on Tue, 2010-09-14 12:40
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.
Are there changelogs for Emacs+
Submitted by Zhang Sen on Thu, 2009-12-17 02:20
Thanks!!!
A must for Emacs-trained Eclipse users
Submitted by Alfred Nathaniel on Tue, 2009-12-15 08:52
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.
Great for emacs users
Submitted by Reid Rivenburgh on Mon, 2009-12-14 19:01
I had a problem with my key bindings, but a reinstall of Emacs+ seems to have straightened that out. Now it works great, and I don't think my old, emacs-trained fingers could ever go back!
Can a visual effect similar to `transient-mark-mode` be added?
Submitted by Zhang Sen on Sun, 2009-12-13 21:44
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"!!
The "set mark command" already solved this problem.
Submitted by Zhang Sen on Mon, 2009-12-14 03:40
Sorry for the disturbance!!
Emacs+ is a really wonderful plugin for emacs guys who have to working inside eclipse sometimes.
Thank you very much for your great work.
Truly shines on the mac
Submitted by John Russell on Sun, 2009-12-13 16:10
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.
the "select balanced expression" does not work as in Emacs
Submitted by Zhang Sen on Fri, 2009-12-11 02:54
I bound the `select balanced expression` to Ctrl+Alt+Space, but it selects only the next word(as in Emacs) each time.
I've checked there is no conflicting key binding on Ctrl+Alt+Space