Re: Emacs users a dying breed?

[S Boucher <stbya@yahoo.com>]

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> Agreed. Some basic tidying and emacs would/might get a new lease of
> life. mixed mode, java, auto completion, some tutorial on how to actually
> use cedet without a degree in compiler design :)

I think the biggest problem with cedet is not cedet itself.

When you create a VisualStudio project, VS controls everything, and therefore it is easy to hook into the compiler to maintain the xref DBs.

When you have an endless number of build systems out there, it's a lost cause for cedet to be tightly integrated with the build system (which is pretty much a requirement to have decent xref facilities).  I don't see how a simple tutorial can be written on how to setup cedet.

You can probably set things up well on your own little project, but try to setup cedet on top of, say, webkit... good luck (heck, webkit itself has more than one build system :-)).