From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible? Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:13:25 +0100 Message-ID: <878uu9qeje.fsf@engster.org> References: <1390269670.2888.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <87d2jlqfg0.fsf@engster.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390335491 16897 80.91.229.3 (21 Jan 2014 20:18:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:18:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 21 21:18:18 2014 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 1W5hm5-00021X-Ju for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:18:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60456 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5hm4-0003vz-PQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:18:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51372) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5hhW-0006dt-Vc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:13:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5hhQ-0007oH-VN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:13:34 -0500 Original-Received: from randomsample.de ([5.45.97.173]:43251) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5hhQ-0007o5-LF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:13:28 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=randomsample.de; s=a; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=/WcPAiaHUUoTvCPZMLJ3gC/LPLQcGt4ThEVq6WxCPpo=; b=JS9f9vzprIciN3kpL00D+bQr1xcbKSbVEKDphSNZmWhNO2Qwc2Ntsl+q4uRNQRtQCS5E54C/qbgEMXu/BzwCrgs19nwNjeDyAyw+YeLNY+HsRU3gOkeY/ejLx6gDPgF+; Original-Received: from dslc-082-083-040-104.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.40.104] helo=spaten) by randomsample.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W5hhP-0000iO-Of; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:13:27 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Tom's message of "Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:07:22 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Mail-Followup-To: Tom , emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 5.45.97.173 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:168854 Archived-At: Tom writes: > David Engster randomsample.de> writes: >> >> Most of the hard work for implementing smart completions was already >> done (and yes, it took many years). We have the necessary infrastructure >> and fairly well working parsers for C/C++, Java, Python, Fortran90, and >> others. Yes, there is still a lot of work to do, and more contributors >> would be nice, for sure, but it is absolutely doable. > > In your assessment when this support can get to the point when > it's comparable for example to the support Eclipse provides for > Java (refactoring, on the fly syntax checking, offering automatic > code solutions for problems, etc.)? For Java? Never, unless someone seriously starts working on it. However, your statement that it is futile in the first place will surely not attract anybody, so please don't make such claims. -David