Re: IDE

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 07:38:31 +0300
> 
> On 10/10/2015 07:48 PM, Eric Ludlam wrote:
> 
> > I had always intended CEDET to be a baseline for IDE like features.
> > Looking just at tagging files, those familiar with it's internals
> > recognize that it can use external tools as weak as ctags or GLOBAL, and
> > can use a more powerful external tool for parsing as well, such as using
> > JAVAC for decompiling .jar files into tags.
> 
> It sounds good if all I have is a parser/tagger.
> 
> But if I already have an external tool that can give me a set of 
> completions at a given position in a given buffer, and also provides a 
> go-to-definition feature, what's the advantage of going through 
> Semantic?

One advantage that comes to mind is that you don't depend on an
external tool whose development is beyond our control.