Re: emacs as a C++ editor

[Knackeback <knackeback@randspringer.de>]

Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> writes:

> In article <m33bxbohrh.fsf@redrat.quark.de>,
>  Knackeback <knackeback@randspringer.de> wrote:
> 
> > Does an emacs extension exist which supports 
> > code completion for C++ programming ? 
> > 
> > Thomas
> 
> There is C++ mode, which is probably included in most emacs distribtions.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "code completion", but it has a lot of 
> features which help editing C++ code.
> 
> You can do meta-/ and it will try to autocomplete the word you started 
> typing.  This is especially useful with the long function names that 
> seem to be common in C++.  You type "fin M-/" and it completes 
> "findAndReplaceAllFrobnitzOccurrances", assuming there is an instance of 
> that name somewhere nearby.  If it guessed wrong, hit M-/ again and 
> it'll cycle through some likely alternatives.  Very handy.
> 
> It also auto-indents code (and can be tweaked to use almost any indent 
> style known to man), matches parens (and braces and brackets and 
> quotes), does syntax coloring, and probably 47 other nifty things I've 
> either forgotten about of haven't discovered yet.
> 
g> Not to mention built-in support for running compilations, and 
> interfacing to several common source control systems.

I think the CEDET project http://cedet.sourceforge.net/ could have
the feature. I will try it. I think the boost libraries are a real
test for parsing the C++ code, which is necessary for code completion
in C++. Of course if someone has already excperience with CEDET please
tell ...

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