Re: imenu / speedbar and C++

[Klaus Berndl]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Jay Cotton wrote:

>  On Oct 1, 2004, at 12:05 PM, Eric Ludlam wrote:
>  
> >>>> Jay Cotton <jay@fleeingrabbit.com> seems to think that:
> >> I've been enjoying the emacs imenu / speedbar features for coding Java
> >> and Ruby, but at the moment I'm working on a C++ project and now I'm
> >> having trouble getting imenu to recognize all the functions in the
> >> file. It seems to only recognize the class definition and the "main"
> >> function - which I guess makes sense if it follows a convention of
> >> only noticing functions that are delimited at the left margin.
> >>
> >> However, in my C++ file, all the interesting stuff happens within the
> >> class, and the functions therein are all indented a few spaces. Is
> >> there a way to broaden imenu's tag filter to allow for these functions
> >> to be captured?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >   The CEDET project has goodies to improve this situation.  See
> > http://cedet.sf.net
> >
> >   I think ebrowse (which is part of Emacs 21) does something similar.
>  
>  Wow, thanks - a lot going on at CEDET. From what I can tell, speedbar
>  was originally developed by CEDET, but the problem is that Emacs 21.3
>  doesn't ship with the latest speedbar (actually, I gather it's more
>  complicated than that, with lots of dependencies such as the
>  'semantic' project, also part of CEDEC).
>  
>  Anyway, I grabbed the latest beta version (cedet-1.0beta3b) and
>  installed it and now I'm getting a much better speedbar experience (in
>  C++ at least).
>  
>  Lots to learn.

Maybe you want also "learn" ECB - the Emacs Code browser http://ecb.sf.net .
Some people like it a lot ;-) It uses heavily CEDET................

Klaus

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