RE: Autocomplete for Objective-C

[Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com>]

If you use tags, then M-/ (dabbrev-expand) may just do what you want without anything new.

I don't know if the etags that is delivered with emacs supports Objective C, but Exuberant Ctags (http://ctags.sourceforge.net/) is very flexible. While it does not claim to support Objective C, it can be extended for new languages via regular expressions. I use something like the following to get support for a somewhat obscure language called Passport:

etags --langdef=pl --regex-pl="/procedure[[:blank:]]+([_[:alnum:]]+)/\1/" --language-force=pl

,Douglas
Douglas Lewan
Shubert Ticketing
(201) 489-8600 ext 224

Of course, shells have one feature that no other language has: subshells.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org
> [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org] On
> Behalf Of Germán Arias
> Sent: Wednesday, 2014 February 12 02:42
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Autocomplete for Objective-C
> 
> On 2014-02-11 10:11:32 -0600 David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
> wrote:
> 
> > Doug Lewan writes:
> >> You might consider looking at CEDET/EDE/Semantic. I'm hardly an
> >> expert, but it has some very good tools for different languages.
> >
> > CEDET does not support Obj-C.
> >
> > -David
> >
> 
> Yes, I noticed this today. But, can I use a table to do basic
> completion? Or I need write some semantic rules?
> 
> Germán.
>