From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wojciech Meyer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: feature suggestion for editing config files. Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:20:46 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1276292825 22600 80.91.229.12 (11 Jun 2010 21:47:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:47:05 +0000 (UTC) To: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 11 23:47:04 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ONC48-0004CT-3i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:47:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55012 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ONC47-00010g-EH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:47:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48285 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ON8qZ-0008Qp-1m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:20:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ON8qY-0006XL-64 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:20:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.157]:37204) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ON8qX-0006XA-Vj; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:20:50 -0400 Original-Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so297253fga.12 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:20:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=8V2k9uHnpGl0dypiaT4QVTxhQpAWOQkd8gabcKrtC3s=; b=jSHQutMa9hRdhInb2UBsQyUJDzQrG3G4+IiW8HvRGo5nsUPZFIE189WJzmSPGjrZC/ S6jDw6ZL/5JYSA0MSTATeCvliMYfSWkde7jdBMLS+rQywheBa/SfmHZLSesCO/JWbz/Y /rzW09Zko0pJaA5/FhEz+hsfyCVd7vb99fdfc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=VisK3lorD/Zue2W4qNFZwNy3c0eBMFPWie3hBbUkwII4lI7YZnHqVMsV+X1iH3+aPR Z3Muj2zOghuuxYa4tFD5jQc2+nogzyqPBFgm2oJsMTYq9o2tYsNyQoOFCoVyXFQnbLIZ ryq5+NMiusxFF8CvTLTzzmUzP1/eu3fcnpuog= Original-Received: by 10.216.87.5 with SMTP id x5mr1288607wee.90.1276280446981; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:20:46 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.216.22.3 with HTTP; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:20:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:46:55 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:125770 Archived-At: 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 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. > > -- Sent from my mobile device