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Re: Emacs Telling You the Kind of the Variable Under the Cursor?
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Richard Riley |
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Re: Emacs Telling You the Kind of the Variable Under the Cursor? |
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Wed, 27 May 2009 15:38:57 +0200 |
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Lorenzo Isella <lorenzo.isella@gmail.com> writes:
> Dear All,
> The email title almost says it all.
> I read in a slashdot post that you can configure Emacs so that it will
> tell you/display somewhere (there were no details in that post) the type
> of the variable under the cursor.
> This sounds handy, but I have no idea how to activate this feature
> (given but not granted that it exists really).
> Any hints?
> Cheers
>
> Lorenzo
In which language? I assume not eLisp?
You probably need to look into using the much improved CEDET package.
Here is a good start:
http://cedet.sourceforge.net/
http://xtalk.msk.su/~ott/en/writings/emacs-devenv/EmacsCedet.html
You might consider ECB too which also has a major new release
http://ecb.sf.net/