I usually tweak my emacs to show me documentation (perldoc, hyperspec, man...) on F1 in every language I work with. I would hate it if the IDE documentation flickered everytime the cursor moves to a new symbol (I have never worked with eclipse, I actually guessed this behaviour from your description - might be terribly wrong or not as annoying as it sounds to me).

I had somewhat bad experiences with code-completion-helpers in delphi, which didn't always work reliably, which is, in my opinion, worse than having no such thing. Maybe eclipse performs better. To save typing I use dabbrev-expand in emacs. It looks just at the text in my edit buffer and doesn't try to parse the language. This is, of course, a rather low-level approach, but it has the big advantage of 'no surprises'.

If I need to find available methods in a class, emacs can always jump to its declaration with a few keystokes (via tags, cscope etc.). This even works if there is a lump of uncompileabe code before the point I'm working at. Can eclipse handle that?

In reply to Re: Java vs Perl and Eclipse vs Emacs (serious) by chb
in thread Perl IDE and New Foreign APIs by tomazos

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