

If you're an Emacs guy and I'm an Eclipse guy that makes life pretty difficult for us to take turns at the keyboard. One good argument for this is the XP practice of pair programming. While this may seem unfair, I think that in the end it is better for everyone and will lead to a more productive and unified team.
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I strongly believe that software teams should standardize on a toolset and mandate that toolset. You can also configure the tools to run from your choice of keyboard shortcuts by selecting the Keyboard option in the preferences box, and selecting tools.

This works only for compiler errors and not for failed tests. To jump to the offending line on a compiler error, double click the second line of the error message. The build.xml file may be in the same directory, or any ancestor directory. To run Ant, select it from the "Tools" menu while editing any project source file. Set the File Register to 1, and the Line Register to 2.Enter the following in the 'Regular Expression to Match Output' field:.You may also want to select 'Prompt for parameters', as this will allow you to run the other ant targets besides the default project build (ie: Ant clean, ant test, etc.) Make sure that the 'capture output' and 'save all documents first' options are selected.In the left pane, expand "Tools" and highlight "ant -find".Click the add button, and select DOS command.In TextPad, select Configure -> Preferences then highlight Tools.First get all your environment variables set-if you are able to run Ant from the command line you should be fine.Thanks to Tom Wilczak (whover he is) for suggesting the following: So, here are the recommended instructions. Thanks to Google's cache though, this was no problem. Except for one small detail, the link was dead. Especially, because the folks around here have textpad handily available.Ī quick search for textpad ant compile in google found me the perfect page. Why you want to do this? Well, in cases where installing Eclipse would be more of a hassle (both in time to install, setup and train), textpad is a nice middle ground.
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Did you know that you could get textpad to easily call ant for you? This allows you to compile your code from inside of textpad and jumpt to errors.
