> there is no dialog associated with these options so I'm a bit puzzled by your > description of your problem.
One of the things I noticed when I first used the latest nqmacs build is that it pops up with the dialog when I do File->New File... or File->Open File... Why wouldn't/shouldn't jdee pop up a dialog when it is prompting the user for file names? I think this is a good thing (too bad jdee does not work with it). You may not have explicitly programmed this; maybe you implicitly turn that feature off in your environment? > may I suggest that it is not the best strategy to > try to learn to use the JDEE with a developmental version of > Emacs. This is exactly the reason why I only recently upgraded to nqmacs from the gnu production windows build, after "learning" jdee everyday for several years. I have no choice. The combination of all dependancies of jdee including gnu emacs windows build itself is relatively buggy. Things wouldn't work after a while, like a busy half of a day; I have to restart emacs to make things work again. (I thought this trick is needed only for Windows.) Besides, there are good features in nqmacs, including things outside of jdee. Also, I only tried this for around a week and I feel that it is more stable already. By the way, I am always wondering how big a project jdee can handle. I wouldn't think a couple of thousand of java class files and half dozen projects to switch in between would be a big deal for emacs/jdee, but it seems to show limitation already. When I test with jdee, I use some dummy class files and one simple project file, it almost always works (except the dialog thing above, of course). > In fact, some incompatibilities have already surfaced. I think I just posted one of these problems a couple of days ago (it has to do with jde-run-option-classpath), so this is not new to me. I don't think I can affort to wait for the announcement that everything is OK before I use it. Emacs is the only thing I use, for java or else. As long as the bugs (or imcompatibilities) are not impacting my productivity so much as to miss the deadlines, I don't a problem with it. > A very bad idea. For better or worse, it sometimes was the only way I can put a prj.el in the directory I wanted. I don't have much of problem with emacs' customization feature per se. I will try to adjust my habit a bit in the future.
