Re: feature suggestion for editing config files.

[Ken Hori]

I think this will be incredibly useful not just for editing config files, but
for writing code. For example, Emacs can float a tooltip of the prototype of
<function_name> right after "function_name(" is typed and let it sit below the
cursor asynchronously for a certain amount of time.  It is something modern IDEs
has, which everyone seems to like but Emacs lacks.


On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Wojciech Meyer
<address@hidden> wrote:
> If I can say something here. It is an important email for one reason
> it gives an overview what today people expect from Emacs.
> Personally when I first started using Emacs I would not think I could
> find features found in IDEs like Eclipse, and I quite enjoyed that, it
> comes just with different power. After couple of years I've had become
> an Emacs power user, tried many packages, done many customisations...
> I started to think that Emacs misses proper parsing and semantic
> analysis. Lately I tried CEDET and ECB combo, and I started to be
> amazed. Now, I think what's been proposed, is easily achiveable (could
> be and should be!)  through the semantic package. I think this is
> important, and even was mentioned in the NEWS file when semantic was
> first included.
>
> These are two cents from me.
> Wojciech
>
>
> Ps: sorry about formatting - sending from the mobile.
>
> On 6/11/10, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I am forwarding something sent by address@hidden
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>>   I have an idea of smart file editing. While editing configuration files,
>> an
>> editor could give information about a field of file, which is currently
>> active
>> (cursor is in place of the field). This is like tooltips in Windows, but
>> gives more
>> information. Information could be in a separate window or at last row of
>> editor
>> window. information would be presented as long as cursor is located in the
>> field.
>> Editor could also give advice about value ranges and errors in field values.
>> If editor knows different file formats, it can also autocorrect typing
>> errors
>> in text fields.
>>
>>
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