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Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?


From: David Engster
Subject: Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:41:13 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

Óscar Fuentes writes:
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> I'm quite sure rewriting all that is more than would be needed for
>> intellisense support.
>
> Writing a C++ parser and semantic analyzer from scratch requires several
> man-years of work for world-class compiler writers.

You don't need a full parser. For providing completions, it is
sufficient to parse only a small subset of the code (declarations, most
importantly).

-David



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