Using an IDE to work on the Java library

[Andrew Haley]

On 22/11/17 19:04, Mario Torre wrote:
> 2017-11-22 18:54 GMT+01:00 Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com>:
>> I remember back in the '80s the tool vendors were making fun of us folk who
>> used "grep" as their code understanding tool.  Now 30 years later, I still
>> live in Emacs with recursive grep being my main way of navigating the
>> sources.  It's tough because openjdk's java sources may be ahead of IDE
>> language support, and the sources also come with lots of hard-to-grok C++
>> and Makefiles.
> 
> The irony is not lost on me that is Andrew that is asking how to
> configure an IDE to work on Java :)

Irony?  There's nothing ironic about it, it's a complete mess.  All that
I need is a debugger, and there seems to be no way to get one without all
of the associated baggage that comes along with an IDE.

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Andrew Haley
Java Platform Lead Engineer
Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
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