I’m not a vehement emacs evangelical, and I don’t really hate eclipse. But I’m moving back for rational reasons. Basically, I just don’t like to wait to write code.

At my current client, I have a slow machine. This isn’t uncommon for consultants. It’s absolutely the dumbest thing in the world for a company to do- give their developers underpowered machines. It’s amazing how often it happens, but it’s a fact of life. My system has 2 GB of RAM. Once I have Eclipse, Hsqldb, the Rest server and web server all running I’m basically out of memory. Add all the utility apps and it’s completely spent.

Of course the number one use of memory on my system is Eclipse.

To really switch from eclipse though, emacs will have to do a lot.

For right now, I just wanted to add a mention of my new favorite mode in emacs- org mode.

I’m still a long way from using this effectively- I don’t have the keys memorized, and I still mostly use my dry erase board and notebook instead of jumping to org-mode right away. In short, it’s not ingrained as a habit yet.

One thing I’ve done with it that I am happy with, is that I save my org files to my DropBox, so I can keep my org files synchronized across computers. DropBox is a really slick app- and has clients for all platforms!