At 02:28 PM 8/9/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>> > Will JDE be the choice for tiny, simple, non-web-enabled apps?
>> > What will happen to it as Unix becomes KDE-ed and IBM will be
>> > spending an additional 2 billion dollars on its e-commerce
>> > suite (which includes VAJ)?
>>
>>Yeah, I'm sure that the JDEE and Emacs will all be relegated to
>>small little projects as the latest round of teenagers learning
>>how to operate a computer with joysticks want to code with just a
>>mouse.
>But you've got to admit that pointing the mouse on a var on the screen and
>having its runtime value appear as a tooltip or in general print previewing
>is fantastic! :)
I've already implemented this for an interface between Emacs and another
debugger. Putting the cursor on a variable displays its value in the Emacs
message area. I plan to implement a similar capability, based on a
generalization of eldoc, for JDEbug as well.
- Paul
