From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Philipp Haselwarter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Does CEDET work? Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:13:34 +0200 Message-ID: <878vhie275.fsf@nzebook.haselwarter.org> References: <87k412e4xq.fsf@nzebook.haselwarter.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335467643 15878 80.91.229.3 (26 Apr 2012 19:14:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:14:03 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 26 21:14:02 2012 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 1SNU8f-00040X-0W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:14:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54056 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNU8e-0001y0-BU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:14:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42239) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNU8a-0001xe-MJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:13:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNU8X-0002J4-M9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:13:56 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:33793) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNU8X-0002Ii-Ff for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:13:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SNU8T-0003r1-Df for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:13:49 +0200 Original-Received: from 30.85.114.78.rev.sfr.net ([78.114.85.30]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:13:49 +0200 Original-Received: from philipp by 30.85.114.78.rev.sfr.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:13:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 30.85.114.78.rev.sfr.net X-NSA-Fodder: eavesdropping enforcers secure SSL Nazi CNCIS X-Flame: You satanic Polish beast! User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wH49fXCVYS8P2PkGGfo63uaafBg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:150056 Archived-At: On Thu, Apr 26 2012 20:26 (@1335464766), Lennart Borgman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 20:14, Philipp Haselwarter wrote: > > This is what most of the folks that see me using Emacs for C code (which > is arguably the language best supported by CEDET) want to have for > /their/ setup. Apart from a functioning CEDET, auto-complete is *very* > appealing visually and a for many (novice-) users a more attractive way > to be presented with context-completion than a completion-buffer > (actually the interface is provided by popup.el). It'd be nice to have > this in stock Emacs. > > As Eric has pointed out himself, the entry barrier is quite high though > and support for other languages often requires difficult customizations > (if possible at all). > > A better integration by default for some of the most-used languages > would increase Emacs's usefulness tremendously for the majority of > people writing code, which in my understanding is the main purpose of > Emacs. > > The CEDET framework is there, but the support for a language could be > on many levels. Is there somewhere a table over the support for > different languages? >   There is, at http://cedet.sourceforge.net/languagesupport.shtml I just caught up on the cedet-ml and saw that the newtrunk branch got merged (yay!). This could be a Big Thing if it means that integration and accessibility become an Emacs issue (as opposed to a not-an-emacs-but-someone-other-package's-issue). -- Philipp Haselwarter