From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs as C++-IDE Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:19:14 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87sjstjjnc.fsf@ma-patru.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de> <877h5o214a.fsf@gmail.com> <1315321163.19962.YahooMailNeo@web161618.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Reply-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1315408654 2868 80.91.229.12 (7 Sep 2011 15:17:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 15:17:34 +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 Sep 07 17:17:30 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R1JsY-0006d5-Jc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:17:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41314 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1JsY-0001VK-4h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:17:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37903) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1JsP-0001V0-T7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:17:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1JsL-0007Hq-Bo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:17:21 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:55495) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1JsL-0007Hm-6l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:17:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R1JsI-0006Tv-JD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:17:14 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:17:14 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:17:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ywMjkdnLnOqOSlEP0JN/n0m1VYo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:82178 Archived-At: S Boucher 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.