Re: best Dam*ed development environment revisited (was Re: [DotGNU]Working Groups plan v2)

[James Michael DuPont]

--- Eric Altendorf <address@hidden> wrote:
> Intelligent code completion, immediate syntax and syntax error 
> highlighting, mouseovers that display documentation on the identifier
> 
> in question, hyperlinking to variable or function declarations are 
> some of the more basic things that are useful.
> 
> More advanced things like intelligent automatic code 
> refactoring/rewriting (currently possible), or interactive debugging 
> with the ability to change code and have it recompiled and inserted 
> into the executable currently running in the VM (maybe some day) are 
> other useful tasks...

This type of behaviour needs information that is not available outside
of
the compiler. That is why we need to open up the compiler to EMACS for
example, then we can program these functions in EMACS.

mike

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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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