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Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp |
Date: |
Sat, 01 Mar 2014 16:32:39 +0100 |
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David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>>> Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:04:04 +0100
>>>
>>> > I actually don't understand why are we talking about compilers as the
>>> > only viable infrastructure for the features being discussed.
>>>
>>> It's basically the UNIX philosophy to employ dedicated tools for the job
>>> they have been written for.
>>
>> I'm not at all sure this philosophy is applicable to the issue at
>> hand, or to complex interactive environments the kind of Emacs in
>> general. We are a long way from the classic batch-mode Unix pipeline,
>> where (AFAIK) this philosophy originated.
>
> [...]
>
> Well, I tried summarizing my view of the situation, and you summarized
> yours. We arrive at different conclusions from what appears like the
> same information. But I suppose we have a sufficient amount of
> summaries to have people wanting to take some action see what may and
> may not work to take them where.
Regarding the dump-xref angle: it would appear that the respective
building blocks are described here:
<URL:https://docs.adacore.com/gnatcoll-docs/xref.html>
and that the code is, in one form or the other, in the GCC repository
already.
--
David Kastrup
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