From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible? Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 05:55:49 +0200 Message-ID: <83sisgfz5m.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1390269670.2888.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <87d2jlqfg0.fsf@engster.org> <878uu9qeje.fsf@engster.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390362948 25926 80.91.229.3 (22 Jan 2014 03:55:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 03:55:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 22 04:55:56 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W5ouv-00008t-LY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 04:55:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33470 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5ouv-0005cA-5C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:55:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53028) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5oum-0005c4-Gj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:55:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5oug-0000ND-HO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:55:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:36807) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5oug-0000N3-8j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:55:38 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MZS00400ASPDT00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 05:55:36 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MZS004IFAWO5760@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 05:55:36 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168866 Archived-At: > From: Tom > Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:24:34 +0000 (UTC) > > David Engster randomsample.de> writes: > > > For Java? Never, unless someone seriously starts working on it. However, > > your statement that it is futile in the first place will surely not > > attract anybody, so please don't make such claims. > > My point was that much more can be gained with much less work by > working on interface packages than natively reimplementing these > features. And even more will be gained by using Visual Studio instead of Emacs, but so what? Like David points out: a lot of required infrastructure already exists, so this is doable, given enough motivation. It's not an unthinkable effort.