Emacs vs Eclipse with JSDT

Emacs can be controlled entirely with the keyboard. While true, I often find the mouse and menus handy for those lesser-used commands. An aide-memoir.

Customizations can be made to a wide range of Emacs' functions through a Lisp dialect (Emacs Lisp). A robust list of existing Lisp extensions include the practical (git integration, syntax highlighting, etc) to the utilitarian (calculators, calendars) to the sublime (chess, Eliza).

You can debug, compile, manage files, integrate with version control systems, etc. All through the various plugins that can be installed.

You can use Emacs' command line interface or graphical user interface.

Emacs has extensive help support built-in as well as a tutorial accessed with C-h t.

With 30+ years of use the Emacs documentation is very thorough. There are also a lot of tutorials and guides written by third parties.

Licensed under GNU GPL.

You can pass complicated arguments in the mini buffer.

Fully compliant GNU-emacs is available on many platforms, and they all understand .emacs configuration files.

Emacs can select rectangularly.

Evil mode emulates vim behaviors within Emacs. It enables Vi users to move inside the Emacs universe.

Evil is an extensible vi layer for Emacs. It provides Vim features like Visual selection and text objects.

With lisp customization, any behavior of Emacs can be changed. Update with pre-release patch can be also applied without recompiling the whole Emacs.

Dynamic word completion.

Review the "Emacs Rocks" video.

Advanced planning and publication which can start as a simple list.

You can jump straight from your org-mode files to programming tasks - and back - and build a seamless workflow.

Works on Linux, Windows, Macintosh, BSD, and others.

Through its programmability, a very broad range of functionalities can be integrated in emacs, turning it even into a "single point of contact" with the underlying operating system.

Since version 25 you can run GTK widgets inside Emacs buffers. One of these is the WebKitGTK+, which allows the user to run a full-featured web browser inside Emacs with JavaScript and CSS support among other things.

Powerful commands, search, and more with the Helm plugin.

Managing several large mailing lists has never been easier using Gnus. The threading commands and the various ways of scoring articles means that I never miss important messages/authors, etc. A joy to use.

Emacs is great for everything.

Emacs has a number of shell variants: ansi-term, shell, and eshell.

Eclipse with JSDT provides you with quick fixes every time a warning or error is raised by the IDE. This feature is particularly helpful at places in code where errors were caused by the programmer just being a little "lazy", such as missing out the + sign between two operands or a variable being out of scope.

Just like all other IDEs, Eclipse offers you inline code completion (even with any external JS libraries added to the project).

Eclipse runs on Windows, Linux and Mac, and is totally free of cost.

Eclipse's refactoring features are quite similar to Webstorm's. It provides almost the same functionalities which include renaming, moving, and member extraction to make your code tidier

This feature is particularly useful when you've added a lot of nesting in your code and you're unable to recall which opening bracket corresponds to which closing one.

Eclipse has a large and active community, which has resulted in a wide variety of plugins.

Thanks to the large variety of plugins and various configuration options available, Eclipse is very customizable.

Eclipse lets you integrate web servers (like Apache or Jetty) into the IDE, which you could use for in-container testing or providing services.

Pulling, pushing, staging, stashing, etc., are all available in Eclipse as IDE functionalities.