Re: [cedet-semantic] Significance of "To Remove Middle Tag: xxx" messages?

[Nikolaus R. <Nik...@ra...>]

"Eric M. Ludlam" <er...@si...> writes:
> On 07/16/2013 10:10 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm a bit irritated by the behavior of semantic when editing Python
>> code. It seems that almost every semantic parse is followed/interrupted
>> by a message of the form "To Remove Middle Tag: xxx". My minibuffer
>> rarely shows anything else anymore. Even more annoying, when editing
>> docstrings the "xxx" often happens to be a complete docstring (which can
>> be tens of lines), which causes the the minibuffer to grow by several
>> lines for a fraction of a second before it jumps back to normal.
>>
>> Can someone explain to me what this message means, and (if it's
>> harmless) is there a way to get rid of it?
>>
>> I'm using semantic 2.0 in Emacs 23.4.
>
> Hi,
>
>    There are a series of debug messages in the incremental parser.  As 
> you might imagine, getting an incremental parser to work is a bit 
> tricky.  Most of the messages are wrapped in a 
> semantic-edits-verbose-flag check, but that one was missed.
>
>    I will check in a change to fix that in the CEDET repository.  It is 
> safe for you to ignore the issue, or go into semantic/edit.el, find the 
> message, and remove it.

Will do, thanks!

Can you tell me what's the best way to make my modified version of
the semantic-edits-splice-remove function take precedence over the one
from the system-wide edit.el?

I tried to put the following in my .emacs,

(require 'semantic)
(defun semantic-edits-splice-remove (oldtags parent cachelist)
; [...]
)

but this doesn't seem to actually replace the definition (presumably because
it's an autoload function?), and I have to C-x C-e the defun again after
I have opened a buffer that actually uses semantic...


Best,

   -Nikolaus

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