Re: Per-language project-search-path, was: Re: Unified project interface

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 08/02/2015 11:57 AM, Nix wrote:

> Allow me to interject here that this feature had me applauding when I
> discovered it. It's an example of helpful automagic: if you have a large
> project, you're going to want a tagging system anyway: having Semantic
> automatically exploit it as soon as it appears is just gravy.

If EDE works for you, that's great. You should continue using it.

> Speaking personally, I don't need an extra project system: as far as I'm
> concerned Emacs already has one.

The point is other tools can use some information about your current 
project without being aware that you're using EDE. Or something else.

> the project, how to build it, how to find things in it with a degree of
> context-sensitivity that xref can only dream of (though its
> multi-backend feature means that presumably it can learn to *use*
> Semantic to provide context-sensitive search)

Indeed, it can. *And* it's also useful for languages which Semantic 
doesn't support.

> Most of this project
> discussion and the invasive code piling into modes all across Emacs
> feels to me like an attempt to reimplement part of EDE, but without
> things like the grammar-sensitive searching that makes EDE so capable.

What code piling?