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| (back to ProgrammingNotes) Emacs is more than an editor - it's a lifestyle. I spent years using vi but have fairly recently started to make the investment to join the cult. I prefer emacs to IDE's because I feel that the investment in time that I spend learning it will be more likely to pay off because emacs has been around for a long time and will continue to be around for a long time. Also, more of the smartest people I've worked with have used emacs than all other development environments combined (although lately Eclipse is gaining). | ||||||||
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| > > | You can embed these commands in a comment on the first line of a file. Let's say you want to interact with files created by people using Eclipse with its completely retarded default config of hard 4-character tabs. Just make sure that this text is somewhere on the first line of the file, either inside a /* ... */ or after a //:
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Ant - to use ant instead of make to compile programs inside emacs, you'll want to run ant with the -emacs flag which makes the output more plain but allows emacs to find error messages. The easy way to do this is to add (custom-set-variables '(compile-command "ant -emacs")) to your .emacs file. | ||||||||