From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible? Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:53:51 +0100 Message-ID: <87d2jlqfg0.fsf@engster.org> References: <1390269670.2888.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390334052 32696 80.91.229.3 (21 Jan 2014 19:54:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 19:54:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 21 20:54:20 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 1W5hOu-0001XU-24 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:54:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60288 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5hOt-0006Rx-NW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:54:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45555) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5hOl-0006Rk-Ez for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:54:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5hOf-00011N-Er for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:54:11 -0500 Original-Received: from randomsample.de ([5.45.97.173]:43231) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5hOf-0000zL-4h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:54:05 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=randomsample.de; s=a; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=6oeImTMDqTZQHq18frgDQjr/EN9yaNgZ66g9rsCcqcs=; b=NAZmFc5woJ55llkpp2xuhcoDKFtM4K19TkfOsXj5qtakZ1LeTamVIes/nQCR+J7tGgJxvKGE+mZqHzj9CBInmVnJcFjISycG7zzmDVdhgEpwCmfSm9Nh+0O4s4ZMy0y0; Original-Received: from dslc-082-083-040-104.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.40.104] helo=spaten) by randomsample.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W5hOX-0000WG-Qw; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:53:58 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Tom's message of "Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:59:10 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Mail-Followup-To: Tom , emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 5.45.97.173 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:168850 Archived-At: Tom writes: > Creating mature and extensive intellisense features is hard work, > it requires lots of man hours and while it's technically possible to > implement it in emacs it is unlikely to happen, because emacs lacks > the developing resources. Most of the hard work for implementing smart completions was already done (and yes, it took many years). We have the necessary infrastructure and fairly well working parsers for C/C++, Java, Python, Fortran90, and others. Yes, there is still a lot of work to do, and more contributors would be nice, for sure, but it is absolutely doable. -David