Re: IDE

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 10/28/2015 01:39 PM, Eric Ludlam wrote:

> Did you enable semantic-mode?  The buffer would need to be parsed for
> the data to be available, and for the prompt to have completion.

Yes, that was the problem, thanks. It works, and looks kinda nice.

> This is a good point.  I always have thought about language independence
> and extensibility, but most folks are just trying to solve a problem and
> may not be interested in extending to anything else.

One way to encourage wider applicability is to offer smaller, maybe 
less-functional, but more generic APIs.

> I've built many little tools over the years, but perhaps they are
> observed as parts of CEDET core, and not as examples.  The semantic-ia
> functions were supposed to be examples for how to use the
> infrastructure, but users have ended up using them as their interface
> and they became more complex.

Maybe it would be better if they were more polished and 
fully-functional, instead.