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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: haXe code completion
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:52:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <gmb3ek$bkt$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21799555.post@talk.nabble.com>

TheLonelyStar wrote:
> I would like haXe (www.haxe.org) code completion in emacs.
> The haxe compiler provides everything that is needed. If invoked with the
> information of the position in the source, it returns to stderr a xml-list
> with completon possibilites.
> 
> But I am not good in wrtiting emacs lisp. How can I:
> - Invoke an external program and store the output to stderr?

call-process-region, using the (REAL-BUFFER STDERR-FILE) form of the
BUFFER argument.  If you're only interested in capturing standard error,
then REAL-BUFFER is 0.

> - Parse xml?

(xml-parse-file STDERR-FILE)

> - Display a list for autocompletion?

completing-read is the direct user interface, but there are higher level
completion modes -- sorry, I don't know how to hook into them.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA





      reply	other threads:[~2009-02-04  3:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-02 22:07 haXe code completion TheLonelyStar
2009-02-04  3:52 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]

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