Re: Emacs as C++-IDE

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

S Boucher <stbya@yahoo.com> writes:

> ----- Original Message -----
>
>> oh,the description is no compete right.
>> Emacs can do all thing in
>> http://www.dealii.org/~archiver/dealii/msg06854.html thing,
>> and do better,more efficiency.
>
> I'm a full time emacs user, but emacs presently doesn't offer what some IDEs do offer for code browsing.
>
> CEDET is definitely impressive and has potential, but I've been unable so far to use it satisfactorily.
>
> The biggest problem is configuring a project.  Try setting a CEDET project on
> top of WebKit, for example.  It's difficult to match CEDET to a third party
> build system, except for the most simplistic projects.
>
> CEDET is impressive, but I've given up on it for the time being, and use ebrowse as a poor man's class browser.
>

+1. Such a shame because it seems to have so much potential. The
previous posters claims are quite baffling to be honest and I can only
assume he hasn't used a modern IDE with all the code helpers etc which
are often now the norm and frequently invaluable when using large
library APIs or huge legacy code bases.