Re: code completion

[Arne Schmitz]

Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:

>> 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.
> 
> 
> It looks to me like Eric Ludlam is very actively developing
> CEDET/Semantic/EDE right now.
> 
> I do not understand these things very well at all, but is not that a
> very promising framework?

I think it is! So everyone, try it out and help improve it! Even if it is by
commenting on it, reporting bugs etc. What could be better in Semantic /
CEDET is e.g.:

1) Parsing speed -- Parsing in elisp is sloooow for large files. Maybe we
need a real semantic-parser written in C or some other fast language.

2) Refactoring -- given the capabilities it should be possible to refactor a
variable. This is one tool, I am really impressed with in Eclipse, and
would like to see in Emacs.

Arne

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