Re: emacs CEDET auto-complete

[Chuah Teong Leong <teongleong at gmail dot com>]

Thanks Per and Jamison for your inputs.

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:40 AM, Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> wrote:
> On 04/17/2013 02:13 AM, Chuah Teong Leong wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I am trying to setup emacs for programming in kawa.
>> Specifically I would like jump to definition and auto-complete
>> functionality within emacs.
>> CEDET seemed to be the way to go so it would be helpful if anyone can
>> verify that cedet works with kawa or at least scheme.
>
>
> What looks like a big hurdle when using CEDET is that it
> assumes a separate parser/analyzer using the Semantic tool.
> I don't see how this can reliably work for a language with macros.
> like Scheme.  I like what NetBeans does, in that it actually
> uses javac to do the parsing and semantic analysis (at least
> as far as I understand it).
>
> Perhaps it is possible to hook up Semantic so it communicates
> with an inferior Kawa process?
>
> To me, perhaps the most important feature of an IDE is that
> given a variable I can "go to definition" and given a
> definition I can "show usages".  Doing this reliably means
> you need to hook into the language's macro expander.  Otherwise
> I might as well use grep.
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