Re: IDE versus emacs

[Suvayu Ali]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 02:49:47PM +0000, Tom wrote:
> Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es> writes:
> > 
> > Emacs has partial support for some of those features, with CEDET always
> > shining on the horizon, but instead of catching up with other IDEs as
> > time passes, it is falling behind.
> > 
> 
> The Eclipse developers should be persuaded somehow to separate
> the completion/refactoring stuff into a separate library. Is 
> there a reason why this part is tied to their GUI editor? If it
> were a separate library then any editor could use it, not just 
> Eclipse.
> 

I believe there is a project (led by some Google engineers) to have code
completion using clang based servers for editors like Vim and Emacs.
Phoronix reported on it a while back.

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Suvayu

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