[e-lang] Eclipse and E

[Micah Caldwell]

Nothing other then the usual CLI versus GUI arguments.  At some point I
would like to build an Eclipse plug-in to support E which will give it
syntax highlighting, code outlining, code folding, etc.  For browsing the
Java part of the E source code all of these features are available along
with a nice debugger and whatnot but I am still learning E so I haven't
really touched any of the E source code.

On a related note, what are the advantages to using the E language over
ELib?  Do these advantages apply to projects running on trusted servers but
being connected to by untrusted clients?  Are there any tutorials (similar
to E in a Walnut) that talk about how to use ELib effectively?

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:49 AM, Toby Murray <toby.murray at comlab.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi Micah,
>
> Nice one. Have you come across any advantages employing Eclipse with E,
> so far, over the standard (command-line) approach?
>
> Cheers
>
> Toby
>
> On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 10:26 -0700, Micah Caldwell wrote:
> > In an attempt to learn E I went through what was a rather painful
> > process of getting E running under Eclipse.  In order to avoid other
> > people having to go through similar frustrations I created a short
> > tutorial on how to do it at
> > http://wiki.erights.org/wiki/E_Under_Eclipse.  If anyone here is
> > interested, it would be nice to get some feedback on whether the
> > instructions work for anyone else and also if they work on other
> > operating systems.  Since all the tools used are Java based, it
> > *should* work exactly the same regardless of the OS but since I only
> > have Windows boxes running at the moment I am unable to verify if this
> > is the case or not.
> >
> > Also, I will admit that I'm relatively new to Java (and E) so if
> > someone notices me doing something backwards or in an odd way in the
> > tutorial please point it out so I can correct it (both in my
> > environment and in the tutorial).  In the end I was able to run a
> > one-line E program but for all I know the same could have been done in
> > half the steps.
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