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 23:50:50 +0100 Message-ID: <87y529osol.fsf@engster.org> References: <1390269670.2888.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <87d2jlqfg0.fsf@engster.org> <878uu9qeje.fsf@engster.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390344677 1241 80.91.229.3 (21 Jan 2014 22:51:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:51:17 +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 23:51:23 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 1W5kAF-0000kM-3m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:51:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60920 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5kAE-0008HX-Pu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:51:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59983) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5kA6-0008HG-NN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:51:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5kA0-0006lx-Or for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:51:14 -0500 Original-Received: from randomsample.de ([5.45.97.173]:43339) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5kA0-0006lr-EX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:51:08 -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=lq5z1QBzFPcA/9lMVT6fmzH5PW9Z/WbFgY9DpJ9kJK8=; b=hv4h7EZqxQVxmXZC8UA7ph153uQ/T98QD+nxTZeJKHdgGDnvgBVbi/n7hLcNfarXVjxlMyD5I0lS6+EoeOMmAdM976vnRb36xEcV8GTTXMNBw9HAKmYOqiowNA5F9ocu; 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 1W5k9y-00027K-KX; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:51:06 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Tom's message of "Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:24:34 +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:168857 Archived-At: Tom writes: > David Engster randomsample.de> writes: > >> For Java? Never, unless someone seriously starts working on it. However, >> your statement that it is futile in the first place will surely not >> attract anybody, so please don't make such claims. > > My point was that much more can be gained with much less work by > working on interface packages than natively reimplementing these > features. Maybe. I've did my fair share in writing interfaces to external binaries, and found it to be mostly frustrating. But anyway: people will work on whatever they want to work on. I for one have no interest in leaving all the actually rewarding and interesting work to an external binary. Where's the fun in that? -David