Re: code completion

[Richard G Riley]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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.

There are only so many hours in a day for all of us Eli. And
unfortunately writing Emacs packages isn't on my time table :(