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

[Paul Whitfield]

Paul Kinnucan wrote:
> David Vanderschel writes:
>  > Besides dabbrev, there is another completion mechanism
>  > which has not been mentioned here and which I believe
>  > is more along the lines of what Paul and Eric are
>  > working on.  Look up the "Symbol Completion" node in
>  > emacs info.  This mechanism is based on tags (which
>  > are derived syntactically depending on the programming
>  > language).
>  > 
>
> Has anyone used symbol completion with the tags generated by ebrowse,
> the C++ tagger? Does it work well? How does it compare to the
> intelligent symbol completion prrovided by Visual C++? The Windows
> version of Emacs does not appear to contain the Ebrowse tag
> generator. Does anyone know if ebrowse works on Windows?

It is part of emacs-21-2 (I just checked)

Running ebrowse seems to work... but I get errors
about newlines in string constants when I run it over
some example code.

When I open the browse file I get an error:

File mode specification error: (error "Invalid escape character syntax")

Paul