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Re: Emacs learning curve


From: Alex Ott
Subject: Re: Emacs learning curve
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:02:51 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (darwin)

Re all

address@hidden  at "Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:49:25 +0200" wrote:
 >> Well, cedet has no discernible documentation.  It has no info file.
 >> semantics has an info file.  It talks about bovine and wisent parser
 >> generators.  It mentions their source files.  They don't exist.  Wisent
 >> files presumably have an extension of .wy.  The semantics documentation
 >> claims that there is a mode for creating them.  Opening a file with .wy
 >> extension puts it in fundamental mode.  There are no interactive
 >> commands autoloaded starting with wisent- or bovin that would have
 >> anything to do with writing language support using
 >> Cedet/semantics/whatever.
 >>
 >> If there is any usable infrastructure or documentation for creating a
 >> mode/grammar with the current Emacs distribution, it is rather well
 >> hidden.
 >>
 >> In the current state of Cedet as delivered with Emacs, it is not usable
 >> for creating new parsers for a language of your choice.  You can use the
 >> existing parsers, but you'll have a hard time finding out what they do,
 >> and even just what languages are supported.

 j> Thanks. Maybe I can help Eric with documentation then. 

For example, you can use my article about CEDET as a base --
http://alexott.net/en/writings/emacs-devenv/EmacsCedet.html
(http://alexott.net/en/writings/emacs-devenv/EmacsCedet.muse - source)

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