Re: Getting ideas from other editors: Postfix Code Completion

[joakim]

Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:

> Tom <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Here's an idea from IDEA for Emacs programming mode developers.
>> This combination of snippets, completion and transforming
>> typed expressions seems like a useful convenience feature:
>>
>> http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2014/03/postfix-completion/
>
> Looks cute, but these are basically local refactorings.
>
> I think I'd prefer invoking them the usual way (with some key
> combination, not after typing a dot), but as long as Emacs has no native
> refactoring support, the question is moot anyway.

Cedet has SRecode, which is useful for refactoring.

> And when it does, implementing something like this would be relatively
> trivial.
>

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Joakim Verona