From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 05:53:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vbxcfzaa.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20140121T203346-230@post.gmane.org>
> From: Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 19:58:21 +0000 (UTC)
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> >
> > According to this logic something like the rewrite of the display
> > engine that happened between Emacs 20 and Emacs 21, or bidirectional
> > editing support for Emacs 24 would never have happened. But it did.
> > Each one of these took many man-months of work.
>
> Yes, but I don't think their complexity is comparable to, for example,
> the Java support of Eclipse which has been continously developed
> for many years by a bunch of people. Repeating this effort is
> no small feat.
The Emacs display engine is many tens of thousands of C code plus many
thousands of Lisp. I'm quite sure rewriting all that is more than
would be needed for intellisense support.
> > Look at the amount of changes that get committed every day to the
> > Emacs repository, and try to estimate the effort that goes into that.
> > Sometimes I wish I had such resources at my disposal on my daytime
> > job.
>
> Yet, Emacs cannot provide the same level of language support like
> other tools for Java and C++, so it is apparent the language support
> part has not enough resources.
Like I said: lack of motivation, not lack of resources.
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Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-21 2:01 Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible? Jorge Araya Navarro
2014-01-21 18:59 ` Tom
2014-01-21 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-21 19:58 ` Tom
2014-01-22 3:53 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-01-22 4:36 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-22 6:31 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-22 7:26 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-22 8:13 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-22 9:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-22 11:02 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-22 13:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-22 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-23 8:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-23 8:44 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-23 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-24 2:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-24 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-22 8:49 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-01-22 11:53 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-22 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-22 18:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-22 19:10 ` David Engster
2014-01-22 16:52 ` David Engster
2014-01-22 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-22 16:41 ` David Engster
2014-01-22 17:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-01-22 17:36 ` David Engster
2014-01-22 18:12 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-22 18:34 ` David Engster
2014-01-21 20:03 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-01-22 3:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-22 6:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-22 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-23 7:54 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-22 17:29 ` Phillip Lord
2014-01-22 18:49 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2014-01-23 9:00 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-01-23 19:34 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2014-01-23 13:20 ` Phillip Lord
2014-01-23 15:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-23 20:56 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2014-01-23 22:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-23 22:43 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2014-01-24 1:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-24 10:25 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2014-01-24 12:46 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-01-24 13:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-25 23:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-01-24 11:58 ` Phillip Lord
2014-01-25 23:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-01-26 10:15 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2014-01-26 23:04 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-01-23 2:22 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2014-01-23 13:26 ` Phillip Lord
2014-01-21 19:53 ` David Engster
2014-01-21 20:07 ` Tom
2014-01-21 20:13 ` David Engster
2014-01-21 20:24 ` Tom
2014-01-21 22:50 ` David Engster
2014-01-22 3:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-23 9:16 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-01-23 17:17 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] <mailman.172802.1390363342.10747.emacs-devel@gnu.org>
2014-01-22 7:39 ` Jorge Araya Navarro
2014-01-22 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
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