From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: An Eclim frontend for Emacs Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:13:04 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87y6tz12m2.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87ws9i6ggv.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87fxg6urhz.fsf_-_@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <200904181430.n3IEUqhW014738@projectile.siege-engine.com> <87k55hx0t4.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1240094452 15504 80.91.229.12 (18 Apr 2009 22:40:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:40:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 19 00:42:12 2009 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 1LvJEh-0006BE-7f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:42:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51369 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LvJDI-0000mx-DG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:40:44 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.esat.net!colt.net!feeder.news-service.com!weretis.net!feeder2.news.weretis.net!feeder.motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 45 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX18Qk4+UVWXPQxqs8HrXTFhquFLmsMxtz9lL0DbHo9Lv1yH/1rQMo0R0eoPufdNIb9n1AUYJAoJtJoOndvnSd7IGfpjmZ7vqyQOrPQYeUANAFb+Im3De1huLyeaCaPNh37TfyQYzKF9/Vw== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:13:06 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX19jUhsEbQb4Z2P7xblVYUAiZceIdsn9Bk5uGAKA5/mgqg== Cancel-Lock: sha1:7RdKbtqqt1+CVxdMH34XeI8ocPw= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168587 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:63860 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Nikolaj Schumacher writes: > > Hi Nikolaj, > >> Well, eclipse does keep a syntax tree of the source code. Eclim >> doesn't necessarily make it available in a raw form, but it has (at >> least) a command to print the class prototypes (java_class_prototype). >> >> Looking at the source code it wouldn't be too hard to return methods, >> arguments, etc. in CSV form. > > Doesn't it do that already? I only had a very brief look at the code, > but I had the impression that it basically returns every completion > possibility available at this position. > >> Somebody just would have to convince the vim folks to accept patches >> helping an Emacs project. ;) > > I searched their mailing list, and it seems the word emacs was never > ever spoken out. ;-) But I'm pretty sure they would accept patches. > It's free software, so one could fork it anyway, and this would decrease > the benefits on every side. > >> Either way, it's a very neat project. Thanks to whoever mentioned it >> first. ;) > > My pleasure! > >> The completion seems to work well with company[1], too, so I'll >> include a back-end in the next version. > > Wow, that would be cool. Till now, I didn't have a deeper look at > company mode, but this would definitively make me try it. > > Bye, > Tassilo > > I wonder where company mode and autocomplete out do each other in some areas and reinvent the wheel in others. Company mode seems to provide better select information e.g elisp info for candidates.