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: Does CEDET work? Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:42:47 +0200 Message-ID: <87pqaul4go.fsf@engster.org> References: <87k412e4xq.fsf@nzebook.haselwarter.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335465788 999 80.91.229.3 (26 Apr 2012 18:43:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:43:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philipp Haselwarter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 26 20:43:07 2012 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 1SNTek-0002DL-Sn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:43:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40460 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNTek-0000xw-A5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:43:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48279) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNTeh-0000x4-Cx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:43:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNTee-0002SO-PN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:43:02 -0400 Original-Received: from randomsample.de ([83.169.19.17]:34942) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNTee-0002QB-A4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:43:00 -0400 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=7srUxYb1+LngCXa9TEmtG5PVFNvtvvKfN5lgUPZhlYA=; b=jHr5lMuz1582j6IUFrE6EP7/TA9rBtQnDPPuMkWPzYQzloWdiBN9vNK6ehACMEz7G7JlSP9jOBOxxOIoQiEyEqTFecJ24PWyp3lHHJiKdkHnlzy1CrxJN9wJHAbEf3Dz; Original-Received: from dslc-082-083-060-082.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.60.82] helo=spaten) by randomsample.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SNTeS-0007s1-MM; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:42:48 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87k412e4xq.fsf@nzebook.haselwarter.org> (Philipp Haselwarter's message of "Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:14:25 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) Mail-Followup-To: Philipp Haselwarter , emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 83.169.19.17 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:150053 Archived-At: Philipp Haselwarter writes: > This is what most of the folks that see me using Emacs for C code (which > is arguably the language best supported by CEDET) want to have for > /their/ setup. Apart from a functioning CEDET, auto-complete is *very* > appealing visually and a for many (novice-) users a more attractive way > to be presented with context-completion than a completion-buffer > (actually the interface is provided by popup.el). It'd be nice to have > this in stock Emacs. I agree. It would be great to have a completion system based on textual overlays. At least, the also excellent company-mode is in ELPA, but it's currently unusable on Emacs24 with an activated header-line (yes, I reported it). CEDET has its own completion system with various display styles, but they're all not as good as company-mode or auto-complete. -David