Using Emacs as the Scala IDE

If you haven't yet picked a Scala IDE to use, I would like to recommend the ENSIME mode for Emacs and other editors. You can find it at the following website:

https://github.com/ensime

Obviously installation instruction will be dependent on the kind of editor you are using. If using it with Emacs (a popular cross-platform editor), the installation process is described here. You can get Emacs from the Emacs website:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

There are a lot of books available on using it. It is completely open source and with ENSIME it makes probably the best open source IDE for Scala, in the author's opinion. After installing Emacs on your system, you can install ENSIME. To do this, first add the following ...

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