Re: IDE

[Eric Ludlam]

On 10/10/2015 02:31 PM, John Wiegley wrote:
> If we have a single paradigm for "determining interesting details about the
> buffer, and near point", with the ability to refine the query based on what is
> need, optionally cache results, etc., then the competing libraries we have
> today could share functionality. The present day `all-completions` function is
> too spare to fit this bill, so it's less of an IDE feature in my book and more
> just a Lisp library function.

In CEDET, the function / command `semantic-analyze-current-context' 
provides an output that has lots of details about the buffer near point. 
 Not just what the cursor is on, but if it is a chain of symbols such 
as dereferencing struct pointers, and in many cases, it figures out the 
data type of the symbol the cursor is on.  It also handles in-buffer 
caching, etc and plenty of performance tweaking is available.

This is independent of the functions that perform completions.

Eric