From: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 18:36:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhy7q5q7.fsf@engster.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fvoghr7q.fsf@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Wed, 22 Jan 2014 19:16:41 +0200")
Dmitry Gutov writes:
> David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:
>
>>> Writing a C++ parser and semantic analyzer from scratch requires several
>>> man-years of work for world-class compiler writers.
>>
>> You don't need a full parser. For providing completions, it is
>> sufficient to parse only a small subset of the code (declarations, most
>> importantly).
>
> You may not have to parse every line of code, but you should be able to, no?
>
> Otherwise, how would you know which type the variable at point has,
By scanning the function's body for local variable declarations, and
simply ignore everything else. The C++ grammar simply has a bunch of
pretty generic expression rules without any actions, so we can skip over
the uninteresting stuff.
So yes, I wasn't specific enough: technically, we do parse function
bodies. But practically, we ignore most of it.
Of course there's a drawback that we don't fully parse the body - we
might get the local context wrong, for instance. But at least from my
experience it's working very well.
> or the return type of the method it calls
By parsing the declaration of the method.
-David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-22 17:36 UTC|newest]
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
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 [this message]
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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