From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Generators (iterators) for Gnu Emacs Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:45:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: <877fy77zhp.fsf@web.de> <877fy6rp2o.fsf@web.de> <548230FB.40307@dancol.org> <5482C872.5010304@dancol.org> <5483C537.3010707@dancol.org> <54840719.5080209@dancol.org> <87ppbv4bdt.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <5484C780.3080902@dancol.org> <5484E52A.8020107@dancol.org> <54850BDD.1020202@dancol.org> <87y4qh518r.fsf@engster.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418075203 23706 80.91.229.3 (8 Dec 2014 21:46:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 21:46:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael Heerdegen , Daniel Colascione , Nic Ferrier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Engster Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 08 22:46:36 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy68Z-0004qB-L9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 22:46:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36296 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy68Y-0005ld-VY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:46:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47610) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy682-0005Uw-U3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:46:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy67v-00019O-FS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:46:02 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:43334) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy67u-00019I-MY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:45:55 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AskIAOwQflRFxLi7/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYMp3BAICgSQXAQEBAQEBfIQDAQEDAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIhKCdZZAQEBAQYBAQEBHpAMYweESAWLAYxUl1qBeIQZIYJ3AQEB X-IPAS-Result: AskIAOwQflRFxLi7/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYMp3BAICgSQXAQEBAQEBfIQDAQEDAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIhKCdZZAQEBAQYBAQEBHpAMYweESAWLAYxUl1qBeIQZIYJ3AQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,502,1413259200"; d="scan'208";a="99903856" Original-Received: from 69-196-184-187.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.196.184.187]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 08 Dec 2014 16:45:54 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E21FC66125; Mon, 8 Dec 2014 16:45:53 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87y4qh518r.fsf@engster.org> (David Engster's message of "Mon, 08 Dec 2014 21:35:00 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179483 Archived-At: > Seriously: Yes, the parser could be improved. But it still would have > several drawbacks compared to grep et al.: > . It is slow. > . You need to set up some kind of project beforehand so that Semantic > knows what to parse and where to find dependencies. > . It will only work inside Emacs. > . I guess that Changelog thingy will become more complicated. > . Did I mention it's slow? > I'm all for it. As mentioned in my sample grep command, it'd have to parse all the emacs and elpa Elisp files, in order to find all potential references. Stefan