I also have to state that Emacs is my absolutely favourite development environment. I played around with Netbeans, Eclipse and IDEA (a really cool Java IDE), but in the end I always came back to Emacs.
About Eclipse I didn't like that it wants the source directories below its working directory, nowhere else. Since I don't want to move my source directories, Eclipse wasn't acceptable for me. Netbeans is quite okay, especially the debugger I like very much, but for daily development I think I don't see enough of the code (I have a 1024x768 screen) since the window decorations are soo huge, and the class browser also takes too much space of the screen if I don't want to use the mouse every minute. Intellij IDEA instead is a really cool IDE, it has many features and is focused on programmers like me who don't like to use the mouse frequently and who want to see as much code as possible at the same time. What I like very much is that the class browser, project browser and all the other views hide when they are not used.
I think in the future I will again give IDEA a chance, but Emacs is *the* universal development platform for me.
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I also have to state that Emacs is my absolutely favourite development environment. I played around with Netbeans, Eclipse and IDEA (a really cool Java IDE), but in the end I always came back to Emacs.
About Eclipse I didn't like that it wants the source directories below its working directory, nowhere else. Since I don't want to move my source directories, Eclipse wasn't acceptable for me.
Netbeans is quite okay, especially the debugger I like very much, but for daily development I think I don't see enough of the code (I have a 1024x768 screen) since the window decorations are soo huge, and the class browser also takes too much space of the screen if I don't want to use the mouse every minute.
Intellij IDEA instead is a really cool IDE, it has many features and is focused on programmers like me who don't like to use the mouse frequently and who want to see as much code as possible at the same time. What I like very much is that the class browser, project browser and all the other views hide when they are not used.
I think in the future I will again give IDEA a chance, but Emacs is *the* universal development platform for me.