Re: "Perfect Setup" for hacking on Nix?

[Chris Marusich]

Thomas Danckaert <address@hidden> writes:

> From: address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès)
> Subject: Re: "Perfect Setup" for hacking on Nix?
> Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2017 11:33:16 +0200
>
>>> I have sometimes found myself looking at the Nix source code that
>>> is
>>> embedded in the Guix repository.  However, I don't have a lot of
>>> experience with C++, so I don't really know how I should set up my
>>> development environment for hacking on (or just browsing) that
>>> code.
>>>
>>> So, what's the "Perfect Setup" for hacking on Nix?
>>
>> Good question!  :-)  I use Emacs without any of the fancy things.
>> M-x
>> compile, M-x grep, M-x rgrep, xgtags.el (for GNU GLOBAL tags) are
>> good
>> enough for me.
>>
>> That said, I’d be happy to hear about new tricks!  Does Semantic
>> work
>> well these days?
>
> I'm quite happy with it (have been, for a number of years already!).
> It's code analysis is not perfect (e.g. it doesn't always distinguish
> different symbols with the same name), but helps a lot.  It can take
> you to function definitions and declarations, show all uses of a
> function or variable, display function signatures etc.
>
> I did have to disable Semantic for Scheme buffers, like this:
>
> (add-to-list 'semantic-inhibit-functions
>              (lambda () (member major-mode '(scheme-mode))))
>
> Otherwise, I get constant debugger prompts from the semantic parser
> when working with (Guile) Scheme files.  I didn't submit a bug report
> so far, because I'm not sure if it's purely a bug in Semantic, or if
> there's some interference with Geiser.
>
> For really excellent code analysis of even very messy C and C++ code,
> I recommend KDevelop (I tend to use it just to explore and find my way
> around a code base, and then use Emacs for actual editing).
>
> Thomas
>

I asked on nix-dev, and the (limited) response was basically that you
should use whatever works best for you:

https://mailman.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2017-April/023416.html

I guess that means I should look into a C++ IDE (Eclipse?) or the emacs
ecosystem for C/C++.

-- 
Chris

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