Re: What IDEs support autoconf-based projects ?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > more than one text-editor (you've listed two) does syntax-highlighting
> > for autoconf scripts, is scriptable, and can run subprocesses (emacs and
> > vim aren't IDEs, however - though there are _probably_ scripts for each
> > which do specific subtasks).
>
> I think the point is that "IDE" is hard to define.  As I noted in my
> previous message, you're going to have a hard time naming an IDE feature
> that Emacs doesn't have.  (It has an integrated source-code debugger, for

For instance tooltips listing structural details (googling shows comments 
that that emacs has a way to present a hint of that information, in a less 
effective way, so someone dubbed it "tooltips" ;-)

For example

        http://www.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/info2www?(emacs)Tooltips

isn't describing the feature that IDEs commonly have nowadays.

> instance.)  It just doesn't put them together and present them in the way
> that most IDEs on, say, Windows would.

oh... does emacs show class diagrams reconstructed from source code? (I 
might have missed that looking at the program itself, but googling shows 
me ways that emacs can communicate with external tools that do this, but 
that's not per definition).

An IDE is just that: an _integrated development environment_, not simply
a combination of closely related tools.

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