From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard G Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: code completion Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:55:59 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205301466 3280 80.91.229.12 (12 Mar 2008 05:57:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:57:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 12 06:58:14 2008 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 1JZJyg-00044s-5S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:58:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZJy7-0001wf-Lp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:57:39 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!xs4all!feeder.news-service.com!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: feeder.motzarella.org U2FsdGVkX18pzSCH+VhyVDDgj1C33YB9zCWStk14cHcCEaeBgbQ3MysUhiqQyvWGX2Lofl0G4k8x0p4SAZYJXtrKbMMoCo5driAKEwXaRWBNWhBuhaMsWNKgQiBF44DrqT/wMkuoJhxQVFY1nNYvDg== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:56:02 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX18xJAv6KvmyDsSsi1pivW72deaOe0FkC7IHc26eZNjPTg== Cancel-Lock: sha1:fAIKw8Ua7QVfaQirkSQvEyTUoyw= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156906 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:52279 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Richard G Riley >> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:05:03 +0100 >> >> > Every useful feature in Emacs (and elsewhere in Free Software) started >> > as a programmer's itch. There's nothing particularly hard about >> > adding this, much of the infrastructure is already there. All you >> > need is a little time and some will power. >> >> A lot more than a little. If adding real code completion was so easy I >> think it would be working a lot better - better programmers than me have >> attempted it in things like ebrowse, hippy-complete, and senator. > > Trust me: it's not hard. And don't let the fact that others didn't do > that yet distract you. I'm old enough to know that this happens quite > a lot: what bothers you does not necessarily bothers a genius near you. > >> I can only take the somewhat selfish view and hope someone else >> implements it :-; > > Too bad. There are only so many hours in a day for all of us Eli. And unfortunately writing Emacs packages isn't on my time table :(