Re: [h-e-w] c++ editing , variable name completion

[Bill Pringlemeir]

 PK> Has anyone used symbol completion with the tags generated by
 PK> ebrowse, the C++ tagger? Does it work well? How does it compare
 PK> to the intelligent symbol completion prrovided by Visual C++? The
 PK> Windows version of Emacs does not appear to contain the Ebrowse
 PK> tag generator. Does anyone know if ebrowse works on Windows?

It is in my emacs directory,

O:\Components\MicroBrowser\ZafBrowser\Source>dir e:\src\emacs-21.2\bin\e*.exe

    Directory of e:\src\emacs-21.2\bin

   03/19/02  04:32p               113,691 ebrowse.exe
   03/19/02  04:32p             5,188,946 emacs.exe
   03/19/02  04:32p               154,777 etags.exe

I built this directory from the source however.  I can ship my version
of ebrowse to you if you like.  If it isn't in a binary distribution,
then that is probably an oversight.  I have modified some makefile (of
my own projects) to use Ebrowse, but I am only getting use to it.

Personally I type fast and if I needed to type a variable a lot, I
would either create a macro, use cut and paste, get a program to
generate the code or restructure, but that is just me...

Other developers were using the Visual C++ and checking in vsc blah
blah blah extentions because it took them forever to generate the file
and the didn't want to regenerate them.  They caught hell for
degenerating CVS with this crap.  I suspect it is the type of files
that this "intelligent symbol completion" produces to make cut and
paste programming even easier.

More useful than "intelligent symbol completion" is the CodeWright
feature that pops up definitions, etc when the mouse passes over the
symbol.  I have since discovered etags/ctags.

hth,
Bill Pringlemeir.