Hi everyone and thank you to Paul from a new user of JDE.
I was setting up a project after reading this and it occured to me that if I
could create a 'custom' grouping of options it would make setting up a
project a lot easier..
For example I could then create an option group called myOptionGroup or
something under the JDE option group and add only the options that I
normally change when setting up a new project.
While I'm offering suggestions, something I have never seen in a code
editor, but which I think would be very useful would be a command to toggle
the display of comments on and off. I find that sometimes I just don't want
to see the comments when examining my code. Anybody else every wished for
something like that?
Once again, thanks Paul for all the effort!
Randy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Kinnucan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: jde and custom
> At 09:27 AM 6/16/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >It's nice to be able to customize jde on a per project
> >basis.
> >The typical things one customizes across projects are
> >classpath settings
> >--and less frequently things like template generators.
> >
> >However as set up at present
> >one is either forced to navigate through the custom point
> >and click interface which is suboptimal to those of us used
> >to updated a lisp variable;
> >on the other hand because the proj.el file holds all the
> >project customizations, edititng that file by hand is not
> >very pleasant.
> >
>
> Hi Raman,
>
> It may be suboptimal for some users but it is certainly optimal for me, as
> the JDE's author, in that custom has practically eliminated a major source
> of tech support email to this list, namely people setting JDE variables to
> the wrong type of value, e.g., to a string when a list of strings is
> required. Interestingly, the people who complain the most about having to
> use customize, namely Emacs "experts," are the most prone to this type of
> error because they are the least likely to consult the doc for a variable.
> They just blithely set it to the type that they know must be right because
> of their expertise. I consider myself an Emacs expert and probably more
> knowledgable than any about the settings of JDE variables. Nevertheless, I
> am grateful for customize. It has eliminated the need for me to remember
> the data types required by the countless JDE variables and has also
> eliminated Lisp errors caused by typos. The extra time required to set the
> variables via custom is more than offset by the savings in time require to
> ensure that the Lisp code is correct or finding bugs caused by incorrect
> Lisp code.
>
> Regards,
>
> - Paul
>
>
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