Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?

[Óscar Fuentes]

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.

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