Re: What IDE features are in CEDET?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Eric M. Ludlam wrote:
> If you
> suspect the existing nxml parser output could be translated into the
> same style of output as Semantic's tag structures, that can work, but
> I'm not entirely sure what would be done with the results since xml
> is flexible enough to cause every schema to need it's own translator
> into Semantic tag format.

I no nothing about the details. What I thought was that Semantic (or 
perhaps more the user interface part of it) could ask nxml-mode for the 
state, completione possibilities etc, whenever needed.

> Semantic has incremental parsing also, but only have a full pass has
> been done.

That reminds me of that Emacs font-lock can do a second pass where 
context is taken into account. (If I have understood things correctly.)

> There was a long thread on this topic in the address@hidden
> mailing list.  Semantic's mode targeting is done using
> "mode-local.el" which is part of CEDET, which allows simple context
> switching between language features in a single buffer.

Seems like a needed feature.

> You are talking about multiple languages in
> a single buffer which is different.

Yes, but sometimes you can have view the buffer content either way. For 
example a buffer containing a php file can be viewed as either just 
consisting of php code (which of course is a valid view) or as some part 
containing xhtml and some containing php script code.

The advantages/disadvanteges is of course those you have mentioned. I 
mention this just to make the concepts more clear.