CEDET

On 04/08/2010 06:26 PM, Wei Li wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to setup CEDET's smart completion. However, when I try to
> bind the semantic-ia-complete-symbol-menu and use it, it shows "Wrong
> type argument: syntax-table-p, nil". How is this function working? I
> thought it means that if I type partial name of e.g. a function and
> trigger this binding it will show the matching items in a menu (and I
> remember I saw such functionality on somebody's machine). I tried search
> the web but got no luck. Is there anything else I need to set? Here is
> my command:
>
> (define-key c-mode-base-map [(meta ?/)] 'semantic-ia-complete-symbol-menu)
>
> And of course, the above command is within my hook definition added to
> c-mode-common-hook. Any help will be appreciated.

You certainly have the right idea, but are running into some other kind 
of problem.  What version of CEDET are you using?

If you enable:

M-x toggle-debug-on-error RET

it will produce a stack trace which will help reveal what is going on.

Eric

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Eric M. Ludlam <eric@...:

> On 04/08/2010 06:26 PM, Wei Li wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am trying to setup CEDET's smart completion. However, when I try to
>> bind the semantic-ia-complete-symbol-menu and use it, it shows "Wrong
>> type argument: syntax-table-p, nil". How is this function working? I
>> thought it means that if I type partial name of e.g. a function and
>> trigger this binding it will show the matching items in a menu (and I
>> remember I saw such functionality on somebody's machine). I tried search
>> the web but got no luck. Is there anything else I need to set? Here is
>> my command:
>>
>> (define-key c-mode-base-map [(meta ?/)] 'semantic-ia-complete-symbol-menu)
>>
>> And of course, the above command is within my hook definition added to
>> c-mode-common-hook. Any help will be appreciated.
>>
>
> You certainly have the right idea, but are running into some other kind of
> problem.  What version of CEDET are you using?
>
> If you enable:
>
> M-x toggle-debug-on-error RET
>
> it will produce a stack trace which will help reveal what is going on.
>
> Eric
>

Hi Eric,

Thanks for your quick answer, even to my kinda fool question. I googled
using the debug information and got a post of a similar problem, and you
replied there saying it might be because senator was not on. And I found a
problem: In Alex Ott's tutorial he said for semantic's customization, users
need to choose one command from semantic-load-enable-minimum-features,
semantic-load-enable-code-helpers,
semantic-load-enable-gaudy-code-helpers,
emantic-load-enable-excessive-code-helpers,
semantic-load-enable-semantic-debugging-helpers, and each command contains
all the features of previous commands. However in another tutorial the
author used two commands, e.g semantic-load-enable-code-helpers and
semantic-load-enable-semantic-debugging-helpers.  I didn't have Senator on
using Alex's setting (with only semantic-load-enable-semantic-debugging-helpers
command) but had it using the other setting. Does it mean that
semantic-load-enable-semantic-debugging-helpers
doesn't enable Senator?

BTW, I used 1.0pre6 when I asked in the first place and now I am using
1.0pre7. Thanks for your help!

Cheers

On 04/09/2010 06:49 PM, Wei Li wrote:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> Thanks for your quick answer, even to my kinda fool question. I googled
> using the debug information and got a post of a similar problem, and you
> replied there saying it might be because senator was not on. And I found
> a problem: In Alex Ott's tutorial he said for semantic's customization,
> users need to choose one command from
> |semantic-load-enable-minimum-features,
> ||semantic-load-enable-code-helpers,
> ||semantic-load-enable-gaudy-code-helpers,
> ||emantic-load-enable-excessive-code-helpers,
> ||semantic-load-enable-semantic-debugging-helpers|, and each command
> contains all the features of previous commands. However in another
> tutorial the author used two commands, e.g
> |||semantic-load-enable-code-helpers |and
> |semantic-load-enable-semantic-debugging-helpers.|  I didn't have
> Senator on using Alex's setting (with only
> |semantic-load-enable-semantic-debugging-helpers |command) but had it
> using the other setting. Does it mean that
> |semantic-load-enable-semantic-debugging-helpers |doesn't enable Senator?


Thanks for the detailed description of what you found.  Knowing that it 
was related to no semantic special features being enabled, I was able to 
reproduce the issue, and make Semantic robust to this situation.  It 
should now be possible to use the basics of smart completion without any 
of the extra support features.  It just won't do much. ;)

I checked in my changes to CVS.

Eric