Re: emacs as a C++ editor

[Roy Smith]

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.

Not to mention built-in support for running compilations, and 
interfacing to several common source control systems.