From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Bloggs Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: semantic.cache Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:21:38 +0100 Message-ID: <87wstte49p.fsf@DEBLAP1.BeNet> References: <87d4vmeu21.fsf@DEBLAP1.BeNet> <87odf6n6g9.fsf@post.rwth-aachen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1192170680 24493 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2007 06:31:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:31:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 12 08:31:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IgE31-0002d5-Bk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:30:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IgE2v-0004UV-7I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:30:53 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:21:47 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:54Rpe0Ure7Vb+alPMwVw95Ij4HY= Original-Lines: 40 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-X-Trace: sv3-csZhyjl7VN5gs3Wb1tQOqOKExjLTUslk8vq4T2vclMCt9cxLWq8c0VJIZ6cOPbmtwEXl9CUcEcX1t1J!vTycW78XAlBjTHSmTMTS2CYO9f2oS4vS1oop61l5ZUdxq7mO7QEN Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.36 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152848 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:26:46 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:48356 Archived-At: Thorsten Bonow writes: >>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Bloggs writes: > > Joe> Can anyone tell me what the semantic.cache file is for in .emacs.d? > Joe> Thanks. > > Hi, > > you must have activated "semantic", part of "cedet": > > "Semantic is an infrastructure for parser based text analysis in Emacs. It is a > lexer, parser-generator, and parser. It is written in Emacs Lisp and is > customized to the way Emacs thinks about language files, and is optimized to use > Emacs' parsing capabilities." > > http://cedet.sourceforge.net/semantic.shtml > > From the documentation: > > Semantic database provides caching of the parse trees by saving them > into files named `semantic.cache' automatically then loading them when > appropriate instead of re-parsing. The reason for this is to save the > time it takes to parse a file which could take several seconds or more > for large files. > > Toto > > > > -- > Contact information and PGP key at > http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/thorsten.bonow > > Cats, as a rule, don't like lawyers. They have great insight into > human character. > > Friedman, Kinky (1993), Greenwich Killing Time. New York (Wings > Books), 48 Thanks