What can you recommand me ?
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A:
I tend to use etags.
For emacs integration: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/html%5Fnode/etags.html
For how to run etags. http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs/etags.1.html
As a bonus, this blog post describes a bit more emacs setup and how to use etags. http://tulrich.com/geekstuff/emacs.html
Edit: To answer the comment, after runnning etags across your code, you can complete words with C-x t(that's what it's bound to on my machine.) Or you can call the tag-search method.
chollida
2009-08-19 20:08:35
Yeah that's what I actually use, but as far as I can see, doesn't provide code completion feature. Does it ?
ZeroCool
2009-08-21 14:15:12
for C/C++ gnu global is better
Alex Ott
2009-08-21 16:43:13
CEDET is far more powerful than GNU Global
Carmine Paolino
2009-08-23 10:46:58
A:
When I'm editing python code in Emacs, I like and use pysmell for code completion:
Greg
2009-08-19 20:21:58
+4
A:
You can try company-mode. It's a multi-backend in-buffer completion mechanism.
Watch the screencast to get an idea of how it works.
Some of the back-ends are:
- CEDET Semantic
- dabbrev
- XCode
- PySmell
- Ropemacs
- GNU Global
And it's also available via ELPA.
Carmine Paolino
2009-08-20 08:32:15
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I find that learning how to type fast (and having a decent memory) beats auto completion every time. How far must we go to try and dumb down programming?
xcramps
2009-08-21 15:49:25
+1 Because I agree - It may be useful, but in the end practice and a firm knowledge base are more useful.
Chris Lutz
2009-08-24 01:03:08
The older I get the more I use -- and rely on -- code completion. Anything that keeps me focused on solutions instead of incantations is a big win.
roufamatic
2010-04-11 03:58:06
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CEDET is just great, certainly needs some time at the beginning but worth it though.
ZeroCool
2009-08-24 23:36:37
+1
A:
GCCSense
From the author of Auto Complete Mode. It uses gcc to find candidates for code completion as the name suggests.
J.F. Sebastian
2010-04-17 11:50:31
A:
to be honest for i like plain old dabbrev-expand (M-/), yes it doesn't use any contextual information other than what characters are adjacent in the open buffers, but on the plus side it doesn't use any contextual information ;) this means you can complete from text you have written first in tests or comments.
for other options http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryCompletion
jk
2010-04-17 12:27:22