Install in recent Eclipse versions possible?

[Fred Richardson]

Has anyone gotten Emacs+ to work with a version of Eclipse Mars or later?

[rs...@stanford.edu]

I installed it in neon, 4.6.2. It seems to have installed fine and I see the preferences, but no emacs key bindings seem to work...

-r

[Michael Thome]

I've installed it in neon.1 and neon.2 without problems.  Mars was glitchy in various ways as were early neon releases, though I never had any problems with Emacs+, other than a few default keybindings that annoy me deeply ;)

[Fred Richardson]

I will try it on Neon and see if I can get it to work.  I'm really in trouble without Emacs+...

[Fred Richardson]

Hmm... with Neon.3 I am still getting this error:  I'll check to see if I'm doing something wrong...

Artifact not found: http://www.mulgasoft.com/emacsplus/e4/update-site/content.jar.
Artifact not found: http://www.mulgasoft.com/emacsplus/e4/update-site/content.jar.
http://www.mulgasoft.com/emacsplus/e4/update-site/content.jar

[Fred Richardson]

Where did you find 4.6.2?  I only see version 4.2.0 here:
http://www.mulgasoft.com/emacsplus

[Fred Richardson]

Okay, I think this is a weird proxy problem. 

It looks like the URL  "http://www.mulgasoft.com/emacsplus/e4/update-site" redirects to through a google groups URL (I think to an attachment on the google groups site for Emacs Plus).

The Eclipse proxy mechanism seems to choke on the redirection, though my browser has no problem with it and msys2 wget has no problems with it either (see session below).

So I chalk this up as a very irritating Eclipse proxy bug...

% wget http://www.mulgasoft.com/emacsplus/e4/update-site/artifacts.jar
--2017-05-15 15:14:20--  http://www.mulgasoft.com/emacsplus/e4/update-site/artifacts.jar
Connecting to xxx.xx.xxx.xx:xxxx... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http://www.mulgasoft.com/emacsplus/e4/update-site/artifacts.jar?attredirects=0 [following]
--2017-05-15 15:14:21--  http://www.mulgasoft.com/emacsplus/e4/update-site/artifacts.jar?attredirects=0
Reusing existing connection to xxx.xx.xxx.xx:xxxx.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http://78462f86-a-430d8fba-s-sites.googlegroups.com/a/mulgasoft.com/www/emacsplus/e4/update-site/artifacts.jar?attachauth=ANoY7cpYMV2WX6UUhBhFxe-NzkTXu_l3BYsYqDoNpAQZ_q33NNB_wwDP0JQgPpcqBcovFAQxs0DR88FPYHKTIHQP9ZO1TESiTIGJX9yoJdmdAIWqvz2cjt2dcECj7ItfEbu59Lgj10P-mcHydLtV_GAtmnhi46wSUXvjv4GMBlOO3yYp9A6vzZ9qE0YlxpBGU9sbmc4VA9QxPEQrRFlvhR-cGnkU1yr93DcdhvYckQLCDyM5qPdsm-U%3D&attredirects=0 [following]
--2017-05-15 15:14:21--  http://78462f86-a-430d8fba-s-sites.googlegroups.com/a/mulgasoft.com/www/emacsplus/e4/update-site/artifacts.jar?attachauth=ANoY7cpYMV2WX6UUhBhFxe-NzkTXu_l3BYsYqDoNpAQZ_q33NNB_wwDP0JQgPpcqBcovFAQxs0DR88FPYHKTIHQP9ZO1TESiTIGJX9yoJdmdAIWqvz2cjt2dcECj7ItfEbu59Lgj10P-mcHydLtV_GAtmnhi46wSUXvjv4GMBlOO3yYp9A6vzZ9qE0YlxpBGU9sbmc4VA9QxPEQrRFlvhR-cGnkU1yr93DcdhvYckQLCDyM5qPdsm-U%3D&attredirects=0
Reusing existing connection to xxx.xx.xxx.xx:xxxx.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: https://78462f86-a-430d8fba-s-sites.googlegroups.com/a/mulgasoft.com/www/emacsplus/e4/update-site/artifacts.jar?attachauth=ANoY7cpYMV2WX6UUhBhFxe-NzkTXu_l3BYsYqDoNpAQZ_q33NNB_wwDP0JQgPpcqBcovFAQxs0DR88FPYHKTIHQP9ZO1TESiTIGJX9yoJdmdAIWqvz2cjt2dcECj7ItfEbu59Lgj10P-mcHydLtV_GAtmnhi46wSUXvjv4GMBlOO3yYp9A6vzZ9qE0YlxpBGU9sbmc4VA9QxPEQrRFlvhR-cGnkU1yr93DcdhvYckQLCDyM5qPdsm-U%3D&attredirects=0 [following]
--2017-05-15 15:14:21--  https://78462f86-a-430d8fba-s-sites.googlegroups.com/a/mulgasoft.com/www/emacsplus/e4/update-site/artifacts.jar?attachauth=ANoY7cpYMV2WX6UUhBhFxe-NzkTXu_l3BYsYqDoNpAQZ_q33NNB_wwDP0JQgPpcqBcovFAQxs0DR88FPYHKTIHQP9ZO1TESiTIGJX9yoJdmdAIWqvz2cjt2dcECj7ItfEbu59Lgj10P-mcHydLtV_GAtmnhi46wSUXvjv4GMBlOO3yYp9A6vzZ9qE0YlxpBGU9sbmc4VA9QxPEQrRFlvhR-cGnkU1yr93DcdhvYckQLCDyM5qPdsm-U%3D&attredirects=0
Connecting to xxx.xx.xxx.xx:xxxx... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 697 [application/java-archive]
Saving to: ‘artifacts.jar’

     0K                                                       100% 12.8M=0s

2017-05-15 15:14:21 (12.8 MB/s) - ‘artifacts.jar’ saved [697/697]
%

[Fred Richardson]

Woops, never mind ... I see that's Neon version 4.6.2!

[Fred Richardson]

Okay, I managed to install using the following approach.

I used "wget" to download the whole "update-site" URL.  The filenames were messed up as wget left funny extensions on the jar files so I had to fix this (for example "com.mulgasoft.emacsplus.feature_4.2.0.jar@attredirects=0&d=1" had to be renamed to "com.mulgasoft.emacsplus.feature_4.2.0.jar").  This may be a wget problem specifically.

I created a "emacsplus.zip" ZIP file by adding the top level folders and files "features", "plugins", "artifacts.jar" and "content.jar".

I installed the software by going to "Help" > "Install New Software ..." and selecting "Add" and then "Archive" and navigating to the "emacsplus.zip" archive file.

Seems to work great so far!