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: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:41:13 +0100 Message-ID: <87txcwotp2.fsf@engster.org> References: <1390269670.2888.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <83zjmpf80o.fsf@gnu.org> <83vbxcfzaa.fsf@gnu.org> <87eh40fx9j.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390409136 10802 80.91.229.3 (22 Jan 2014 16:45:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:45:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 22 17:45:43 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 1W60vt-0008DE-Fz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:45:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36376 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W60vt-0007GI-5R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:45:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56701) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W60rm-0001NM-Ty for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:41:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W60rg-0004ha-Ri for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:41:26 -0500 Original-Received: from randomsample.de ([5.45.97.173]:44708) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W60rg-0004h4-D2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:41:20 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=randomsample.de; s=a; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=6gJdKwpITmsf1NElQKEbImM5mTZXqwg+LyBlwgIB6+s=; b=DjUXcUMTLqWDa0/ybcb8M2Jb9/9TU4ryGIRu82YjXjl8RIhB1QgMUXQO8VA/ePI91eMtbST7D1eNXMCf8SC+4TXolzugXPfpDIgw++0WyAyxDQRHfPm2Ia5JkpFgqaXo; Original-Received: from dslc-082-083-061-166.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.61.166] helo=spaten) by randomsample.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W60rf-0003Kg-58; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:41:19 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87eh40fx9j.fsf@wanadoo.es> (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22=D3scar?= Fuentes"'s message of "Wed, 22 Jan 2014 05:36:40 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Mail-Followup-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes , 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:168902 Archived-At: =D3scar Fuentes writes: > Eli Zaretskii writes: >> I'm quite sure rewriting all that is more than would be needed for >> intellisense support. > > 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). -David