Open a Qt Creator Buffer in Emacs

Question

I'm working on a Qt based product suite. I see the advantages of using the blessed IDE, Qt Creator, so I want to include it in my workflow.

There are things I want to do, that I'm used to from emacs, that simple key bindings don't help (macros come to mind).

Is there a way I could spawn an emacs instance with the text of the current document, then transfer the edited results back to Qt Creator?

Answer 1

You can configure Emacs as an External Tool (Tools > External > Configure), and then run it via Tools > External.

When saving the file on Emacs, Qt Creator will automatically detect the changes and ask if you want to update the buffer with the new file.