From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2002-01-01T03:20:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29878] Re: Yet Another Newbie

I don't know about Xemacs, but regular emacs has always had the 
tags feature which was very similiar.  Drop me a mail if you
need help getting it working.  The exuberant ctags program
will index ruby source for the emacs tags.

-- alan

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 02:22:46AM +0900, Michael Kelly wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 03:30:04 -0500, Le Wang
> <lewang@?(nospam)?.bigfoot.com> wrote:
> 
> >I second XEmacs.  If you learn one editor for programming, it should
> >be XEmacs, imho, and no offence to the vi[m]? guys.  You can find a
> >speciliazed mode for any programming language.  And most of these
> >modes will have IDE type features, which I believe no other editor
> >offers.
> 
> Hi.  I've used XEmacs, mostly with C++ programming, but
> I have to admit I'm starting to get spoiled and expect
> auto-completion features in an IDE.  I like to hit the
> '.' on a class instance and get a method and property
> list.  Is XEmacs doing that these days?
> 
> Also the odds of me learning Lisp
> are next to nil so for me there will never be the
> programmability there that other environments
> might offer.  For compiling C/C++ and going to the
> line of code of the error it's fine.  Anyway, at
> the moment I'm not often in Linux mode.
> I'm into mixing and matching with COM.
> If I ever get into CORBA then maybe
> I'll do more on Linux.
> 
> 
> Mike
> 
> --
> 
> "I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
>     -- Groucho Marx
>