Re: IDE

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 10/14/2015 01:29 AM, Eric Ludlam wrote:

> Simple things like showing the function you are editing, highlighting
> tags with various features in different ways,or knowing what class the
> method you are in are handy and quick little features that can be built
> generically on top of CEDET, but which require piles of code to do
> individually without that type of support. imenu, etags, ctags, global,
> ident, etc all exist because it is useful, but none of those tools get
> bound into a buffer, so their level of usefulness is limited to "jump to
> a location" instead of handy inline features.

Not sure what you mean by "bound into a buffer", but IMenu, in general, 
only requires a few regexps, and once you have those in place, 
which-func-mode can show up in which "tag" you are.

And ctags can be used for "a database of tags across a project". You 
require it either way, since only open buffers are parsed by Semantic.

> 3) a standard way of knowing where you are in relation to other tags

How does that help?

> Because it is a multi-mode buffer, so sometimes you want to complete
> srecode symbols, and sometimes you want to complete from a different
> language.

Makes sense, thanks.