Semantic bovinator question

Semantic bovinator question

[dave.footitt]

Hi all,

Firstly - I am trying to accomplish a simple intellisense-type
completion facility linked to MS .Net project files, so stop me if
there is one already!

If there isn't, then I'll attempt it.  It seems the `semantic
bovinator' can be of considerable help, but I've read the docs just
now and there's a lot of it.  So I have a few questions:

- Does it support C++ ?

- How do I analyse a buffer?  Everytime I do `M-x bovinate RET' I just
  get an empty buffer with `nil' popping up.  Do I need to do another
  stage somewhere?

- Once the buffer is analysed I presume I can save it, and call the
  functions such as `semantic-analyze-possible-completions' ?


Many thanks,


Dave

Re: Semantic bovinator question

[Eric Ludlam]

>>> dave.footitt@npsoam.kuju.com seems to think that:
>
>Hi all,
>
>Firstly - I am trying to accomplish a simple intellisense-type
>completion facility linked to MS .Net project files, so stop me if
>there is one already!
>
>If there isn't, then I'll attempt it.  It seems the `semantic
>bovinator' can be of considerable help, but I've read the docs just
>now and there's a lot of it.  So I have a few questions:
>
>- Does it support C++ ?

Yes, though I think there are still a couple obscure cases it does not
handle.

>- How do I analyse a buffer?  Everytime I do `M-x bovinate RET' I just
>  get an empty buffer with `nil' popping up.  Do I need to do another
>  stage somewhere?

You need to fully install it.  Each supported major mode needs to have
the correct tables set up so that it knows how to parse it.

If you have downloaded the "cedet" beta package, follow the
CEDET/INSTALL instructions.

>- Once the buffer is analysed I presume I can save it, and call the
>  functions such as `semantic-analyze-possible-completions' ?

Yes.  There are also modes that will do that automatically if you
leave Emacs idle for a little while.

Eric

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