Re: Emacs and C++ codesense

[Hadron <hadronquark@gmail.com>]

Maciej Katafiasz <mathrick@gmail.com> writes:

> Den Fri, 04 May 2007 23:04:41 +0200 skrev Hadron:
>
>>>> This is all good but how did you do these things? Do you have
>>>> accompanying instructions/tutorial?
>>>
>>> Not in any organised manner, no. It's just a demonstration of some simple
>>> (more or less) functions of several packages I use, amongst them semantic
>>> and related tools. The tooltip completion you can see I posted not so long
>>> ago to emacs-sources, it's called semantic-hover-completion.el. Version
>>> 0.1 is very buggy, though, so it's not really very usable for anyone who
>>> isn't me. Unfortunately, I won't have the time to fix that in the
>>> immediate feature.
>> 
>> ok, so it wasn't a demo of what semantic can do. It was a mish mash of
>> different things not likely to be reproduced by anyone but yourself :-;
>
> But of course, large parts of it were due to semantic usage. You asked how
> it can fit C coding, this is my answer.

But which bits? I have no idea which bits were semantic and which others
were part of your "mish mash of other packages".

>
>> Why did you do your own completion? What was wrong with intellisense?
>> Have you used intellisense?
>
> Uhh, this *is* intellisense. At least as long as you regard
> "intellisense"

Well, when you say your wrote your own completion package, how is one
supposed to know the difference?

> as a generic description and not trademarked name by MSFT. I wrote it
> because the existing completion popups for semantic were not close enonugh
> to the original IntelliSense, or rather, diverged in ways that seriously
> hindered their usefulness.

I turn the pop ups off and use tab cycle completion - works quite
nicely.

But again, could U request some sort of explanation of the demo gif?
Just looking at it tells me nothing whatsoever about how you used
semantic to do a job of work.

>
> Cheers,
> Maciej
>
>
>

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