Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?

[David Engster]

Tom writes:
> David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de> writes:
>> 
>> Most of the hard work for implementing smart completions was already
>> done (and yes, it took many years). We have the necessary infrastructure
>> and fairly well working parsers for C/C++, Java, Python, Fortran90, and
>> others. Yes, there is still a lot of work to do, and more contributors
>> would be nice, for sure, but it is absolutely doable.
>
> In your assessment when this support can get to the point when
> it's comparable for example to the support Eclipse provides for 
> Java (refactoring, on the fly syntax checking, offering automatic
> code solutions for problems, etc.)?

For Java? Never, unless someone seriously starts working on it. However,
your statement that it is futile in the first place will surely not
attract anybody, so please don't make such claims.

-David