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Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible? |
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Wed, 22 Jan 2014 05:53:01 +0200 |
> From: Tom <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 19:58:21 +0000 (UTC)
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> >
> > According to this logic something like the rewrite of the display
> > engine that happened between Emacs 20 and Emacs 21, or bidirectional
> > editing support for Emacs 24 would never have happened. But it did.
> > Each one of these took many man-months of work.
>
> Yes, but I don't think their complexity is comparable to, for example,
> the Java support of Eclipse which has been continously developed
> for many years by a bunch of people. Repeating this effort is
> no small feat.
The Emacs display engine is many tens of thousands of C code plus many
thousands of Lisp. I'm quite sure rewriting all that is more than
would be needed for intellisense support.
> > Look at the amount of changes that get committed every day to the
> > Emacs repository, and try to estimate the effort that goes into that.
> > Sometimes I wish I had such resources at my disposal on my daytime
> > job.
>
> Yet, Emacs cannot provide the same level of language support like
> other tools for Java and C++, so it is apparent the language support
> part has not enough resources.
Like I said: lack of motivation, not lack of resources.
- Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, Jorge Araya Navarro, 2014/01/20
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, Tom, 2014/01/21
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/21
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, Tom, 2014/01/21
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- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, Óscar Fuentes, 2014/01/21
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, David Kastrup, 2014/01/22
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/01/22
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, David Kastrup, 2014/01/22
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/01/22
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, David Kastrup, 2014/01/22
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/22
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/22
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/01/23
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, David Kastrup, 2014/01/23