Re: emacs ide

[Pierre Lorenzon <devel@pollock-nageoire.net>]

From: Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it>
Subject: emacs ide
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:05:17 +0200

> Now this can be trivial, but I'd like to fully use Emacs as my primary
> IDE-like environment for software development.
> I currently use Emacs to code in Perl, PHP, C/C++, shell and SQL. All
> the major modes work greats, but I'm not fully happy with autocomplete
> (a needed feature in my opinion) because it tends to propose
> completions based only on syntactic tokens and not on semantic
> members. This means, for instance, that if I mispelled a variable in
> one of my buffers, this will propagate as a possible completion.
> I'm not sure if cedet is the way to go.

  It might be. Try it and if you are not satisfied with cedet
  features you can always post on the dedicated mailing list to
  obtain improvements.

  Pierre




> Anyone has some special setup to have a look at in order to get a more
> ide-like behavior of Emacs?
> - autocompletion
> - code navigation
> - documentation browsing
> - (not really important to me) project file grouping
> 
> Thanks,
> Luca
>