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I got into this after listening to people talk about using emacs-like keybindings in other IDEs. Some even have worked on projects to deblob and [install vscode](https://github.com/fusion809/vscode-installer) with their own setup. And while I find interesting the idea of a free version of visual studio driven on the backs of one of the companies that formerly had such strong feelings against the libre-posix-land, I also have a soft spot for emacs and will always return to it.

2 What does an IDE need?

The emacswiki sums this up with three different articles. Together, in my opinion, these three cover the basics of an IDE in emacs jargon:

• [programming utilities](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryProgrammerUtils)
• [modes](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryModes)
• [code project management](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryProject)

2.1 Auto-Completion Modes

The ability to type a few chars in a given language:

• [predictive](http://www.dr-qubit.org/Emacs_Predictive_Completion_package.html), entry on [emacswiki](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PredictiveMode)
• [robe](https://github.com/dgutov/robe)
• [irony-mode](https://github.com/Sarcasm/irony-mode/), entry on [emacswiki](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/irony-mode)
• [gocode](https://github.com/nsf/gocode)

3 [jedi-starter](https://github.com/wernerandrew/jedi-starter) for emacs as a Python IDE

Has a [demo and tutorial video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BlTGPsjGJk).

Builds on top of these:

• [projectile](https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile)
• [auto-complete](https://github.com/auto-complete/auto-complete)
• [epc](https://github.com/tkf/python-epc)
• [jedi.el](https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi)

Install either manually or with package.el.

4 [emacs-ide](https://emacs-ide.tuxfamily.org/)

Tested this back in February, review pending…

5 [atilaneves](https://atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com/)

Átila has a [video presentation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FQwQ0QWBTU) about using emacs as an ide.

• [Emacs as a Python 3 IDE: at last!](https://atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/emacs-as-a-python-3-ide-at-last/) - 2015/01/29
• [Emacs as a C++ IDE: headers](https://atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com/2016/01/18/emacs-as-a-c-ide-headers/) - 2016/01/18

Átila suggests an IDE should have the following. And regardless of which features an IDE should subjectively or objectively possess, emacs can extend to provide them.

• Jump to Definition
• Auto-completion
• On-the-fly syntax highlighting
• Find file in project
• Compile with one key press
• Graphical debugger

5.1 [cmake-ide](https://github.com/atilaneves/cmake-ide)

Review pending…

5.2 [ropemacs-py3k](https://github.com/atilaneves/ropemacs_py3k)

Review pending…

6 [cedet](http://cedet.sourceforge.net/)

• [emacswiki](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CollectionOfEmacsDevelopmentEnvironmentTools) has a summary of features in cedet