From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: code completion Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:07:54 +0100 Message-ID: <47D6F4AA.2070201@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205269719 22326 80.91.229.12 (11 Mar 2008 21:08:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:08:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 11 22:08:58 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JZBiS-0007Q0-6A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:08:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZBht-0003jP-NM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:08:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZBhd-0003ip-VP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:08:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZBhc-0003hz-4g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:08:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZBhc-0003hw-1R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:08:04 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZBhY-0003uw-Ap; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:08:00 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:62401 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JZBhW-0001Wr-61; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:07:59 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080311-0, 2008-03-11), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JZBhW-0001Wr-61. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1JZBhW-0001Wr-61 c42cbd28ec6280a3d3ead228d7bce37b X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52266 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Richard G Riley >> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:56:11 +0100 >> >> I have a nasty >> feeling that using emacs as a C/C++ IDE might be coming to the end of >> the road as it falls behind in many of the features (code completion, >> refactoring for an example) that more modern IDEs like Eclipse >> provides. The maintainer of ecb as good as said the same. A shame. > > It's indeed a shame that no one of you young programmers who need this > ``modern IDE'' stuff steps forward to add such features to Emacs. > Don't just rely on us old farts! > > Every useful feature in Emacs (and elsewhere in Free Software) started > as a programmer's itch. There's nothing particularly hard about > adding this, much of the infrastructure is already there. All you > need is a little time and some will power. It looks to me like Eric Ludlam is very actively developing CEDET/Semantic/EDE right now. I do not understand these things very well at all, but is not that a very promising framework?