RE: Re[2]: AW: AW: [cedet-semantic] EDE Problems

[<kla...@sd...>]

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