From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: code completion Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:19:13 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205295634 24696 80.91.229.12 (12 Mar 2008 04:20:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:20:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 12 05:21:02 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 1JZISZ-0002LG-Pb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:21:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZIS0-0001Zv-Pf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:20:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZIRc-0001Zo-Fz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:20:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZIRa-0001ZC-Uk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:19:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZIRa-0001Z6-Ly for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:19:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout4.012.net.il ([84.95.2.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZIRa-0001sy-Cu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:19:58 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.201.25]) by i_mtaout4.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0JXL00CPROMGJZR1@i_mtaout4.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:32:40 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:52273 Archived-At: > From: Richard G Riley > Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:05:03 +0100 > > > 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. > > A lot more than a little. If adding real code completion was so easy I > think it would be working a lot better - better programmers than me have > attempted it in things like ebrowse, hippy-complete, and senator. Trust me: it's not hard. And don't let the fact that others didn't do that yet distract you. I'm old enough to know that this happens quite a lot: what bothers you does not necessarily bothers a genius near you. > I can only take the somewhat selfish view and hope someone else > implements it :-; Too bad.