Re: code completion

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:05:03 +0100
> 
> > Every useful feature in Emacs (and elsewhere in Free Software) started
> > as a programmer's itch.  There's nothing particularly hard about
> > adding this, much of the infrastructure is already there.  All you
> > need is a little time and some will power.
> 
> A lot more than a little. If adding real code completion was so easy I
> think it would be working a lot better - better programmers than me have
> attempted it in things like ebrowse, hippy-complete, and senator.

Trust me: it's not hard.  And don't let the fact that others didn't do
that yet distract you.  I'm old enough to know that this happens quite
a lot: what bothers you does not necessarily bothers a genius near you.

> I can only take the somewhat selfish view and hope someone else
> implements it :-;

Too bad.