From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A61DBB84 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:25:27 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AkIFAGO6jUjAXQIm/2dsb2JhbACCOYhjpQo X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.31,267,1215381600"; d="scan'208";a="15536287" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 28 Jul 2008 21:25:26 +0200 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m6SJPQlJ020145 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:25:26 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AlADAGO6jUjUnw6DYWdsb2JhbACCOYhjhywVBwYaA50f X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.31,267,1215381600"; d="scan'208";a="15587669" Received: from pih-relay04.plus.net ([212.159.14.131]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 28 Jul 2008 21:25:25 +0200 Received: from [90.192.139.145] (helo=beast.local) by pih-relay04.plus.net with esmtpa (Exim) id 1KNYLV-0001w0-6m for caml-list@inria.fr; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:25:25 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] New Ocaml Plug-in for NetBeans Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:25:53 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <18587175.post@talk.nabble.com> <20080726090909.GB24428@annexia.org> <488E010C.6060606@naughtydog.com> In-Reply-To: <488E010C.6060606@naughtydog.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807282025.53720.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: 238f2cf10d33a399b5e5d07fd2c98fec X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 488E1D26.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 emacs:01 emacs:01 ocaml:01 plug-in:98 frog:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 compile:01 caml-list:01 hacker:02 pal-kristian:03 everyday:96 engstad:04 compiled:04 On Monday 28 July 2008 18:25:32 Pal-Kristian Engstad wrote: > Richard Jones wrote: > > I'm sure you know why, but because (a) it's a huge amount of work and > > (b) the sort of people who can do the work already use emacs so they > > don't need it. > > Actually, as a regular Emacs hacker myself, I checked out .NET's F# > environment and I must confess that I was quite impressed. It is > actually really neat. Instead of the usual edit, M-x compile, M-x > next-error cycle, the code is compiled in the background creating > "squigglies" under code that has errors. Using this and the > Intelli-sense completion features is very nice and I wish we could have > the equivalent under Emacs. (Of course, though those features still > won't detract me from my everyday daily use of Emacs.) Perhaps some > OCaml/Emacs hackers could work together on a system where emacs and the > ocaml communicates better? Indeed. On a related note: what would people recommend as a good OCaml source code editor under Linux for someone who finds Emacs too archaic and Eclipse too slow? Are there any other editors with type throwback (and maybe even error throwback)? -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e