Re: Emacs Telling You the Kind of the Variable Under the Cursor?

[Richard Riley]

Lorenzo Isella <lorenzo.isella@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear All,
> The email title almost says it all.
> I read in a slashdot post that you can configure Emacs so that it will 
> tell you/display somewhere (there were no details in that post) the type 
> of the variable under the cursor.
> This sounds handy, but I have no idea how to activate this feature 
> (given but not granted that it exists really).
> Any hints?
> Cheers
>
> Lorenzo

In which language? I assume not eLisp?

You probably need to look into using the much improved CEDET package.

Here is a good start:

http://cedet.sourceforge.net/
http://xtalk.msk.su/~ott/en/writings/emacs-devenv/EmacsCedet.html

You might consider ECB too which also has a major new release

http://ecb.sf.net/