Question

Probably question title might looks strange for you, but I’ll try to explain.

I do looking alternative of desktop eclipse, ideally what I need is to edit sources directly on my linux dev-server. On dev server I don’t have any xwindows just command line. So I would like to login to server using Putty, develop, build, run, commit changes to source control system.

From text editor I would need:

• syntax highlight
• autocomletion (at least basic)
• quick navigation trough project files
• basic refactoring: change class name? move class to other
  package,change method signature
• run build without need to leave editor window
• run svc/git commands without need to leave editor window

From the first glance emancs seems to be what I need, but I don’t sure.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I think that you approach is not good. Developing directly on your devel server is not a good practice. But it’s not the question…

Personally, my favorite text editor for programming is emacs. I’m also a Java developer. I’m using Eclim. According to the Eclim Website :

The primary goal of eclim is to bring Eclipse functionality to the Vim editor. The initial goal was to provide Eclipse’s java functionality in vim, but support for various other languages (c/c++, php, python, ruby, css, html, xml, etc.) have been added and several more are planned.

As I said, I use mainly Emacs. So, I’m using emacs-eclim (the Vim plugin is very cool and advanced) :

Eclim is an Eclipse plugin which exposes Eclipse features through a server interface. When this server is started, the command line utility eclim can be used to issue requests to that server.

Emacs-eclim uses the eclim server to integrate eclipse with emacs. This project wants to bring some of the invaluable features from eclipse to emacs.

If you use Emacs, you can also use the JDEE mode. Personally, I don’t like this mode : too complicated, not enough maintained.