What are your favorite C/C++ tools for emacs?

What are your favorite C/C++ tools for emacs?

[Stefan Arentz]

I've been using emacs for a really long time as my primary tool when
working on C/C++ code but I've always just used the basics. A little
customized cc-mode, M-x compile and M-x man when working on UNIX code.

I'm interested to hear from others what their favorite tools or
extensions are for doing C/C++ development with emacs. I know there is
a lot on the emacs wiki but I find it more interesting to hear it here
from people.

 S.

Re: What are your favorite C/C++ tools for emacs?

[Hadron]

Stefan Arentz <stefan.arentz@gmail.com> writes:

> I've been using emacs for a really long time as my primary tool when
> working on C/C++ code but I've always just used the basics. A little
> customized cc-mode, M-x compile and M-x man when working on UNIX code.
>
> I'm interested to hear from others what their favorite tools or
> extensions are for doing C/C++ development with emacs. I know there is
> a lot on the emacs wiki but I find it more interesting to hear it here
> from people.
>
>  S.

I use cscope with xcscope.el (contrib subdir of the cscope archive). In
addition CEDET and ECB. I debug using GUD inside emacs. In conjunction I
use Planner to jot notes and provide links relevant to projects back to
source information such as info pages, web sites, irc channels or even
emails or nntp posts.

Nice.

Re: What are your favorite C/C++ tools for emacs?

[Ken Goldman]

Not limited to C

- keyboard macros are #1.

- dabbrev-expand saves a lot of typing and typos for long variable and 
function names (my style)

- egrep for finding where a function or variable is used and stepping 
through matches

- autorevert for looking at debugger trace files in real time

- integration with CVS and SVN

- speedbar

Specifically for C:

- c-macro-expand, especially when maintaining code with a lot of clever 
uncommented macros (not my style)

Stefan Arentz wrote:
> 
> I'm interested to hear from others what their favorite tools or
> extensions are for doing C/C++ development with emacs. I know there is
> a lot on the emacs wiki but I find it more interesting to hear it here
> from people.