Emacs and JDE

Emacs is a programmer's editor, and has an extension package to make it a simple development environment for Java programs. To run emacs, 


N:\Student\ITProject\emacs\bin\runemacs

Emacs uses a startup file _emacs that it runs. You can place customisation code in this file. A sample file that will load the JDE (Java Development Environment) is at 


N:\Student\ITProject\_emacs

To find the startup file, emacs uses the value of the HOME environment variable. To set this, 


set HOME=N:/Student/ITProject

If you want to install this at home, you will need these files from the ITProject directory:

Unzip these into a suitable directory, and modify the paths in _emacs.

Documentation

There is a JDE Users Guide at the main desk on level B.