[TxMt] Java support in TextMate

[Soryu]

Hey Eric and all Java Programmers using TextMate,

/me and Brian Lalor are currently working on the Java Syntax a bit.


> The big evil Java might be the last to succumb, though. Are there  
> others on this list who would like to jettison Eclipse, too? What  
> can we do to improve Java editing in TM? What would be your minimum  
> list of features?

Eclipse is very deticated to Java. it even comes with its own  
incremental compiler so that it can highlight errors before you  
manually compiled the file and can do much more than a regexp  
language grammar that way, like it know about types and variables all  
the time and so on.
If one knows how to work with it and needs all those nice features  
like a builtin debugger, great autocompletion and documentation  
lookup (I love that and certainly depend on a lot of features of  
eclipse) there is no way around it.

If one is new to a language on the other hand, a nice little editor  
and writing all the code from hand is a good way to learn the  
language, so one learns what he is doing instead of eclipse doing it  
for him.

If I find the time, I will put some effort into it (Juggling with  
jobs at the moment). It would be great, if some more people would  
communicate here on the list or in the irc channel on how to improve  
the current situation. I know you are out there, Java guys! ;)

Soryu