From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: IDE Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 18:08:05 +0300 Message-ID: <83egh1qw8a.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5610207A.2000300@harpegolden.net> <83fv1r3gzp.fsf@gnu.org> <83bncf3f9k.fsf@gnu.org> <5610E0BC.8090902@online.de> <83si5r106e.fsf@gnu.org> <831td9z18h.fsf@gnu.org> <5612E996.7090700@yandex.ru> <83bnc7tavr.fsf@gnu.org> <5618C92A.3040207@yandex.ru> <83a8rrt9ag.fsf@gnu.org> <5618D376.1080700@yandex.ru> <56194171.1080006@siege-engine.com> <5619E7C7.5000401@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444576099 27283 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2015 15:08:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 15:08:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, adatgyujto@gmail.com, eric@siege-engine.com To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 11 17:08:09 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlIEJ-0003x7-9k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 17:08:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48646 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlIEI-0003L5-OP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 11:08:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60891) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlIEF-0003Ku-Dc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 11:08:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlIEA-0001K3-5Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 11:08:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:41119) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlIE9-0001Jz-UL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 11:07:58 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NW200I009N47Y00@mtaout27.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 18:03:59 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NW20099A9UNWK90@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 18:03:59 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <5619E7C7.5000401@yandex.ru> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.183 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:191236 Archived-At: > Cc: adatgyujto@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 07:38:31 +0300 > > On 10/10/2015 07:48 PM, Eric Ludlam wrote: > > > I had always intended CEDET to be a baseline for IDE like features. > > Looking just at tagging files, those familiar with it's internals > > recognize that it can use external tools as weak as ctags or GLOBAL, and > > can use a more powerful external tool for parsing as well, such as using > > JAVAC for decompiling .jar files into tags. > > It sounds good if all I have is a parser/tagger. > > But if I already have an external tool that can give me a set of > completions at a given position in a given buffer, and also provides a > go-to-definition feature, what's the advantage of going through > Semantic? One advantage that comes to mind is that you don't depend on an external tool whose development is beyond our control.