Re: imenu / speedbar and C++

[Jay Cotton]

On Oct 1, 2004, at 12:05 PM, Eric Ludlam wrote:

> > > > Jay Cotton <jay@fleeingrabbit.com> seems to think that:
> > I've been enjoying the emacs imenu / speedbar features for coding Java
> > and Ruby, but at the moment I'm working on a C++ project and now I'm
> > having trouble getting imenu to recognize all the functions in the
> > file. It seems to only recognize the class definition and the "main"
> > function - which I guess makes sense if it follows a convention of
> > only noticing functions that are delimited at the left margin.
> >
> > However, in my C++ file, all the interesting stuff happens within the
> > class, and the functions therein are all indented a few spaces. Is
> > there a way to broaden imenu's tag filter to allow for these functions
> > to be captured?
>
> Hi,
>
>   The CEDET project has goodies to improve this situation.  See
> http://cedet.sf.net
>
>   I think ebrowse (which is part of Emacs 21) does something similar.

Wow, thanks - a lot going on at CEDET. From what I can tell, speedbar 
was originally developed by CEDET, but the problem is that Emacs 21.3 
doesn't ship with the latest speedbar (actually, I gather it's more 
complicated than that, with lots of dependencies such as the 'semantic' 
project, also part of CEDEC).

Anyway, I grabbed the latest beta version (cedet-1.0beta3b) and 
installed it and now I'm getting a much better speedbar experience (in 
C++ at least).

Lots to learn.