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Eclipse vs. Xemacs (not really)

24 October, 2002 - 07:59 — Ulf Rompe

I wrote that I would give Eclipse a try. My results:

  1. Looks very nice.
  2. Can't use it for anything, it keeps crashing after a few klicks or strokes.

Maybe the problem is buried somewhere in my system (Debian Sid, Blackdown Java 1.3), but it's hard to locate because Eclipse is not available as a Package with correct dependencies but only as a ZIP archive.
My conclusion for now is that I will keep Xemacs as my first prefered editor (the everlasting second one is vim). To get some code browsing features like in Eclipse I use ECB which looks a bit ugly but works - except that it doesn't know anything about PHP and so can't come up with a useful function list. Doh. To navigate through smaller projects I often use Speedbar which I put on the F4 key for speedy switching.
Nice, everything - if only the PHP support would be better. I will do some more googling on this, there must be something that closes the gap.

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22 November, 2004 - 17:22 — lgm (not verified)

I have the same issue with ec

I have the same issue with eclipse. It seems to keep trashing on me either at the splash screen or soon after loading. And this one is one was installed from a deb package (apt-get install eclipse-sdk).

I tried playing around with the config files, tried reinstalling it countless times - to no avail. I can't get that damn thing to work...

22 November, 2004 - 21:58 — Ulf Rompe

Try another Java package. If

Try another Java package. If you use Debian Sid, you may already have java-package installed so that you can convert any Java package from Sun into a .deb.

I use Eclipse 3 for a while now. What I had to do to keep this beast from crashing is to switch off PHP browser support in the configuration dialog before loading any PHP project. It took me a while to find that out...