From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bastien Guerry Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: code completion Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:11:19 +0000 Message-ID: <878x0omhmw.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205313117 3492 80.91.229.12 (12 Mar 2008 09:11:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:11:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Richard G Riley Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 12 10:12:25 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 1JZN0a-0004pE-8w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:12:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZN01-0006F4-HF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:11:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZMzd-0006Ek-Js for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:11:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZMzb-0006EC-MV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:11:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZMzb-0006E9-HU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:11:23 -0400 Original-Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZMzb-0005Bi-6v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:11:23 -0400 Original-Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id a2so221419ugf.48 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:11:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.67.122.12 with SMTP id z12mr642105ugm.18.1205313082391; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:11:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from bzg.ath.cx ( [72.14.240.176]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e23sm2622412ugd.56.2008.03.12.02.11.20 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:11:21 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by bzg.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 31528157972; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:11:19 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: (Richard G. Riley's message of "Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:05:03 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:52280 Archived-At: Richard G Riley writes: >> 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! > > I'm not a young programmer. And certainly not an elisp programmer. As > for "need" we dont really "need" more than a text editor, but like all > productivity tools sometimes additions like code completion make life a > lot easier. The OP posted the question on an emacs mailing list, so I assume he wants to use Emacs. With this in mind, it looks more useful to tell him about possible solutions or other ways to get answers, rather than proposing him to cancel his request. -- Bastien