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RE: What IDE features do we need? defaults!]


From: klaus.berndl
Subject: RE: What IDE features do we need? defaults!]
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:07:08 +0200

address@hidden wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> In addition, etags does not really grok C++ and Java style
>> object-oriented languages, so it cannot, for example, let you
>> complete on class members, or show signatures of class methods,
>> whether in tooltips or elsewhere. 
>> 
>>> Improving etags this way would be more of a stop-gap than a
>>> solution. It just isn't powerful enough for that sort of
>>> proprietary environment. 
>> 
>> I don't see why not; could you explain?
>> 
>> OTOH, we could also base an Emacs solution on something like
>> ID-Utils, but that would require to develop parsers for popular
>> languages such as C++, Java, Python, etc.  As yet another
>> alternative, we could use Ebrowse, although it, too, needs some work
>> to catch up with current C++ standards (from a few blatant bugs I
>> recently uncovered in Ebrowse, I conclude that it is almost unused).
> 
> I think  Cedet is the way to go, since it supports a common Emacs
> interface to several different tag generating backends, some of which
> are written entirely in elisp.

I 100% second this - Eric (maintainer of CEDET) works really hard to
make CEDET useable even with huge code-bases - AFAIK performance of
CEDET has increased a lot....




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