Re: feature suggestion for editing config files.

[Wojciech Meyer <wojciech.meyer@googlemail.com>]

If I can say something here. It is an important email for one reason
it gives an overview what today people expect from Emacs.
Personally when I first started using Emacs I would not think I could
find features found in IDEs like Eclipse, and I quite enjoyed that, it
comes just with different power. After couple of years I've had become
an Emacs power user, tried many packages, done many customisations...
I started to think that Emacs misses proper parsing and semantic
analysis. Lately I tried CEDET and ECB combo, and I started to be
amazed. Now, I think what's been proposed, is easily achiveable (could
be and should be!)  through the semantic package. I think this is
important, and even was mentioned in the NEWS file when semantic was
first included.

These are two cents from me.
Wojciech


Ps: sorry about formatting - sending from the mobile.

On 6/11/10, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
> I am forwarding something sent by mika.p.makinen@webinfo.fi.
>
>   I have an idea of smart file editing. While editing configuration files,
> an
> editor could give information about a field of file, which is currently
> active
> (cursor is in place of the field). This is like tooltips in Windows, but
> gives more
> information. Information could be in a separate window or at last row of
> editor
> window. information would be presented as long as cursor is located in the
> field.
> Editor could also give advice about value ranges and errors in field values.
> If editor knows different file formats, it can also autocorrect typing
> errors
> in text fields.
>
>

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