From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vagn Johansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: IDE versus emacs Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 09:56:42 +0200 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <86lifkm3t1.fsf@hotmail.com> References: <83d30y87yi.fsf@gnu.org> <83626q7zvk.fsf@gnu.org> <87y5jl243r.fsf@gmail.com> <87pq4xbqup.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87d30xatgo.fsf@wanadoo.es> <20121006041754.GA30224@hysteria.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349510418 16702 80.91.229.3 (6 Oct 2012 08:00:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 08:00:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 06 10:00:25 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1TKPJ8-0007Q8-T9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 10:00:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50733 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKPIz-0006pb-KT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 04:00:13 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:q5Sgo49YrzUTJ27eLR1QS3jqNcs= Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 188.179.127.211 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=N?3eg>Z8H@Sd^Wn1Qn^6L Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:194772 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:87106 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> I remember it could not always find the definition though. I think >> to get on par with what people called "IDE" the tag system has to >> understand the language semantics. And this, as Jai said, is indeed >> what Semantic (a part of CEDET) claims to do. I was wondering >> whether it is the state of the art or there is a simpler and better >> successor. > > At least in C and C++, tags never miss a definition for me. My only > problem with tags is that they sometimes show me more definitions > other than what I had in mind that match the symbol I type, either > because of case insensitivity or because of partial matches. Is the TAGS format extensible so a new fields could be added? It would useful if the identifiers were tagged (pun intended) with the the "type": class, method, static function, constant etc. For example find-tag could then support a customized find-first/find-next order (eg. class first). You could also use it to make the function guess-class-name-at-point. I have previously needed this for my tempo expansions for C++ member functions. -- Vagn Johansen