RE: Re[2]: AW: AW: [cedet-semantic] EDE Problems
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From: <kla...@sd...> - 2005-01-30 18:20:00
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Eric M. Ludlam wrote: >>>> Markus Gritsch <gr...@iu...> seems to think that: >> kla...@sd... wrote: > [ ... ] >>> IMHO ebrowse has a very clumsy user-interaction and integrates not >>> really smart within emacs-working...but of course a matter ot >>> taste...=20 >>=20 >> I am not going over this again, I already agreed on that. However, >> I am not seeing ebrowse as a foe which must be eliminated, just to >> use CEDET features alone. I was also trying to get CEDET working >> for me to jump to tag definitions/declarations, but didn't succeed. > [ ... ] >=20 > I think it would be quite handy to allow CEDET/Semantic to use other > types of databases (cscope, ebrowse, TAGS, JDEE Beanshell, gdb symbol > lookup, objdump, nm, etc) as semanticdb back ends for finding a tag by > name. >=20 > Any of these alternate C databases could be used to search by name, > name-regexp, or completion which is what is usually needed for > various completion engines. Such a feature would allow semantic > based tools to access a full database of tags without having to parse > them all. That would be exceptionally useful and friendly. >=20 > My original language agnostic smart summary/completion tool used TAGS > as the back end, and a really nasty parser to do the intermediate > work. That nasty parser is what pretty much forced me to sit down and > write a parser generator. >=20 > User interfaces are a matter of taste. Programming APIs for writing > user interfaces should be as clean as possible. (Something I'm not > always good at.) As for final implementation, I don't care where the > tags come from as long as it can be made as fast and accurate as > possible, and those tags contain everything necessary to make a > decision (automated, or otherwise.) >=20 > Does XEmacs have ebrowse as an option? AFAIK ebrowse is written by Gerd Moellmann who was (is) a maintainer of GNU Emacs... no XEmacs-version of ebrowse available - and i do not know how hard or easy it wuld be to port ebrowse to XEmacs... Klaus >=20 > Eric |