From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: haXe code completion Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:52:53 -0700 Message-ID: References: <21799555.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233719693 12159 80.91.229.12 (4 Feb 2009 03:54:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 03:54:53 +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 Feb 04 04:56:07 2009 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 1LUYrv-0004Bi-1v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:56:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57645 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LUYqc-0006g0-EO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:54:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LUYp6-000676-TJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:53:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LUYp4-000641-IW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:53:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45886 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LUYp4-00063p-A6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:53:10 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:60904 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUYp3-0001n0-Cm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:53:09 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LUYp2-0007zq-1o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:53:08 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:53:08 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:53:08 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) In-Reply-To: <21799555.post@talk.nabble.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:61895 Archived-At: 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