*sigh* I have a confession to make - I don't really like IDEs either. I mean, I mostly use the XCode one, but even that I'll edit in emacs first, which does most of the things I value in a coding environment, like auto-parenthesing and syntax highlighting. Maybe I'd feel differently if I was working with manymany files though; mostly, I don't, but I can see the project management advantages to such.
If you want Emacs to browse lots of files, you may want to look into a feature I just discovered myself: speedbar. If you have Gnu Emacs 21.x, you can enter "M-x speedbar", and it will show a new frame with a list of files in the current directory (and you can expand subdirectories from there). Also, two more things that look interesting, but which I haven't yet tried out: the Emacs Code Browser and the Java Developement Environment for Emacs (JDEE). Really, the only things I liked using an IDE for were graphical GUI layout tools, and debugging. And, I bet I can use jdb more effectively from within Emacs than I'm doing now.
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