Re: IDE

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> 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.

Well, we'd certainly like to depend on GCC.

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David Kastrup