Thanks everyone. Wasn't sure if my message escaped RAL.
JBuilder and eclipse were at the top of my list of candidates. The EDT
keypad may just swing it. It's a mixture of the best of the old with
the new, Al). I've tried Xemacs, and found some common operations
were so much slower than with my modified EDT shortcuts.
Before news of David's JBuilder extension, I was heading towards
eclipse, in part because of Tim's point about applicability to other
languages.
> to get the keypad out of numeric mode, and then again to invoke an EDT
> gold function). Given that I do no real java programming I never thought
> it worth the time to sort the remaining problems out, or to tidy the thing
> up in other ways.
There are at least two customers.
> I find useful, including the facility to left justify all your comments at
> column 1 - an essential feature which I feel should be mandatory for
> all Starlink programmers...
Right on bro'. The only advantage of the indenting was to structure the
comments, but I found the use of the ==== and ---- underlining could do
that for me, and be more obvious at a glance what going on in each
section of the code. In the early days of KAPPA I had indented
comments with the code, but you soon run out of room with the column-72
limit. Now to me it the indented comments look more like a First Direct
advertisement, and harder to read, especially in languages written in
lowercase. I like my comments to stand out from the code.
Malcolm
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