On Dec 28, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > martin wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 7:25 PM, C. Scott Ananian >> <csc...@laptop.org> wrote: >>> j/k. ;-) >> >> emacs is what I am using on both XO-1 and XO-1.5 so pretty good going >> ;-) (Along with vim! Peace!) >> >> Lots of people here want to claim we need Eclipse to have an >> "IDE". Of >> all the developers involved in the whole Linux >> kernel+Fedora+Sugar+OLPC custom bits, the incidence of Eclipse usage >> is vanishingly small. >> >> You don't need Eclipse to create this software stack, and it is >> clearly not particularly desirable or ideal for most of the >> developers >> that actually built it. > > sure. but it's not the current developers that are at issue -- > they're > almost by definition happy with the tools at hand. (did i really > just say that? where's my 3D data structure visualizer when i > need it??) it's the ability of kids to explore and learn about > programming that we're talking about. never having used > eclipse, i can't say its suitable. but it has to be more > discoverable than vi, id-utils, and gdb.
Exactly why I wanted to see if it could be installed and used. Emacs forever ! (although it has gotten huge....) wad _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel