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Re: emacs as a C++ editor
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Knackeback |
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Re: emacs as a C++ editor |
Date: |
09 Jan 2005 19:28:38 +0100 |
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Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> writes:
> In article <m33bxbohrh.fsf@redrat.quark.de>,
> Knackeback <knackeback@randspringer.de> wrote:
>
> > Does an emacs extension exist which supports
> > code completion for C++ programming ?
> >
> > Thomas
>
> There is C++ mode, which is probably included in most emacs distribtions.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "code completion", but it has a lot of
> features which help editing C++ code.
>
> You can do meta-/ and it will try to autocomplete the word you started
> typing. This is especially useful with the long function names that
> seem to be common in C++. You type "fin M-/" and it completes
> "findAndReplaceAllFrobnitzOccurrances", assuming there is an instance of
> that name somewhere nearby. If it guessed wrong, hit M-/ again and
> it'll cycle through some likely alternatives. Very handy.
>
> It also auto-indents code (and can be tweaked to use almost any indent
> style known to man), matches parens (and braces and brackets and
> quotes), does syntax coloring, and probably 47 other nifty things I've
> either forgotten about of haven't discovered yet.
>
g> Not to mention built-in support for running compilations, and
> interfacing to several common source control systems.
I think the CEDET project http://cedet.sourceforge.net/ could have
the feature. I will try it. I think the boost libraries are a real
test for parsing the C++ code, which is necessary for code completion
in C++. Of course if someone has already excperience with CEDET please
tell ...
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