I understand from this question that CEDET is installed in emacs 24 without additional installation, so I don't need to follow those instructions here, or the CEDET part here.
I am not using the emacs starter kit, like this answer.
So, when I use elpa to install ecb, I get the following error:
Compiling file /home/mittenchops/.emacs.d/elpa/ecb-20131116.1319/ecb2/jn-file-tree.el at Mon Dec 30 16:13:57 2013
Entering directory `/home/mittenchops/.emacs.d/elpa/ecb-20131116.1319/ecb2/'
jn-file-tree.el:31:1:Error: Cannot open load file: jn-tree-node
Compiling file /home/mittenchops/.emacs.d/elpa/ecb-20131116.1319/ecb2/jn-tree-node.el at Mon Dec 30 16:13:57 2013
jn-tree-node.el:32:1:Error: Cannot open load file: jn-utils
Compiling file /home/mittenchops/.emacs.d/elpa/ecb-20131116.1319/ecb2/jn-tree-view.el at Mon Dec 30 16:13:57 2013
jn-tree-view.el:31:1:Error: Cannot open load file: jn-window
Compiling file /home/mittenchops/.emacs.d/elpa/ecb-20131116.1319/ecb2/jn-utils.el at Mon Dec 30 16:13:57 2013
Compiling file /home/mittenchops/.emacs.d/elpa/ecb-20131116.1319/ecb2/jn-window.el at Mon Dec 30 16:13:57 2013
jn-window.el:44:25:Error: Invalid lambda variable (parent jn-window-container)
Compiling file /home/mittenchops/.emacs.d/elpa/ecb-20131116.1319/ecb2/test.el at Mon Dec 30 16:13:57 2013
test.el:31:1:Error: Cannot open load file: jn-tree-view
Another answer pointed me to this repository, which has jn-utils. Can I just drop these files into my emacs.d/elpa/ecb-20131116.1319/ecb2/ directory to replace the existing jn-utils?
In general:
I just installed ecb
in under a minute.
From bash:
cd ~/git && git clone https://github.com/alexott/ecb
In ~/.emacs
:
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/git/ecb")
(require 'ecb)
Done. ecb-activate
brings up the code browser.