From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sohail Somani Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: IDE versus emacs Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:27:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83d30y87yi.fsf@gnu.org> <83626q7zvk.fsf@gnu.org> <87y5jl243r.fsf@gmail.com> <87pq4xbqup.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87d30xatgo.fsf@wanadoo.es> <20121006041754.GA30224@hysteria.proulx.com> <83pq4w6q3j.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.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 1350664095 29452 80.91.229.3 (19 Oct 2012 16:28:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:28:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 19 18:28:22 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1TPFQr-0005XZ-Mw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:28:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47595 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TPFQk-0003Gs-DI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:28:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33047) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TPFQe-0003Gn-VW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:28:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TPFQb-0002LZ-0G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:28:08 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52591) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TPFQa-0002LF-Pq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:28:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TPFQe-0005Ha-5W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:28:08 +0200 Original-Received: from 75-119-249-160.dsl.teksavvy.com ([75.119.249.160]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:28:08 +0200 Original-Received: from sohail by 75-119-249-160.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:28:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-119-249-160.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:87332 Archived-At: On 19/10/2012 3:55 AM, Steinar Bang wrote: >>>>>> Eli Zaretskii : > >> At least in C and C++, tags never miss a definition for me. My only >> problem with tags is that they sometimes show me more definitions >> other than what I had in mind that match the symbol I type, either >> because of case insensitivity or because of partial matches. > > Can tags filter out those symbols that would match what you're typing, > but aren't reachable from the point in the code where you are typing? No. tags is mostly horrible. I can only use it for finding definitions and even that, only sometimes. Modern C++ codebases (lots of templates) just do not do well with tags.