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From: | Óscar Fuentes |
Subject: | Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible? |
Date: | Wed, 22 Jan 2014 05:36:40 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes: > The Emacs display engine is many tens of thousands of C code plus many > thousands of Lisp. AFAIU this is largely a consequence of the development baggage of Emacs. That is, the complexity of the current code base is far greater than the complexity of its purpose. > I'm quite sure rewriting all that is more than would be needed for > intellisense support. Writing a C++ parser and semantic analyzer from scratch requires several man-years of work for world-class compiler writers. And with every new C++ standard that comes out the effort increases significantly. [snip]
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