From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible? Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 07:31:04 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87wqhso7dj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <1390269670.2888.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <83zjmpf80o.fsf@gnu.org> <83vbxcfzaa.fsf@gnu.org> <87eh40fx9j.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390372283 16085 80.91.229.3 (22 Jan 2014 06:31:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 06:31:23 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 22 07:31:29 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 1W5rLV-0005he-Iv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 07:31:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33858 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5rLV-0002kA-73 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 01:31:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48481) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5rLN-0002jt-0g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 01:31:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5rLH-0002HN-OF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 01:31:20 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50670) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5rLH-0002HE-Hp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 01:31:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W5rLG-0005cK-C1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 07:31:14 +0100 Original-Received: from x2f444fe.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.244.68.254]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 07:31:14 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by x2f444fe.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 07:31:14 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f444fe.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:I+bgXMpWtZKoJhCfWOgeNSvUt0Y= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:168871 Archived-At: Óscar Fuentes writes: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> The Emacs display engine is many tens of thousands of C code plus many >> thousands of Lisp. > > AFAIU this is largely a consequence of the development baggage of Emacs. > That is, the complexity of the current code base is far greater than the > complexity of its purpose. If I understand correctly, It has been more or less rewritten from scratch for Emacs 21. That's not all that long in terms of the total development history. -- David Kastrup