Re: Why tree-sitter instead of Semantic? (was Re: CC Mode with font-lock-maximum-decoration 2)

[Po Lu]

Jostein Kjønigsen <jostein@secure.kjonigsen.net> writes:

> But I've yet to date seen any case where Semantic or CEDET has
> provided me with value as a Emacs end-user and programmer. Maybe it
> works. Maybe it's useful.  Maybe it does magical things. But as far as
> I know, it's a mode you can enable, and then .... nothing happens.

That's not true.  If you enable Semantic and EDE, and add system
includes (with semantic-add-system-include), and wait for the initial
parse to finish after visiting a file in a project, it becomes
immediately useful for editing C code.  It's actually what I use for my
day job.