Re: Emacs as a C Programming IDE Configuration?

[Richard Riley]

Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> writes:

> On Wed, 2011-04-27, haziz wrote:
>
>> I use emacs as my main IDE for programming in C. I am exploring ways
>> of configuring emacs to function more as an IDE rather than as a
>> simple text editor.
>
> Emacs *isn't* a simple text editor. But it works differently from
> whatever IDE you are used to.
>
>> Of course I want syntax highlighting
>
> (global-font-lock-mode 1)
> if it isn't already enabled by default.
>
>> and preferably some code completion.
>
> M-x dabbrev-expand
> or
> M-/

?

>
> Not quite code completion, but more general and IMO more useful.

To be blunt, Its nowhere near code completion and no where near as
useful - dabbrev has its place but not as an intelligent inline
class/type based code completion utility. For that you can use gtags,
semantic and auto-complete or possibly even the built in cedet
completion mechanisms (which are not as powerful as auto-complete aince
ac is more general and allows the same completion mechanism in different
modes using different completion candidates.