Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp

[Josh]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:28 AM, David Engster <address@hidden> wrote:

> One was already mentioned by Stephen Leake: refactoring. Actually,
> anything that requires semantic knowledge of the source code you are
> working on. You could ask for a listing of places dependent of word
> size, for instance, or highlight the places where certain idiom is used.

CEDET will most probably never be able to refactor C++ code, aside from
very simple cases. There are very few IDEs out there which even try to
do that; from my experience, none of them do it 100% reliably (just
bring some meta template programming into the game and see what
happens). IMHO, "Refactoring C++" should not be in the job description.

Though I haven't used it myself, presumably one of these IDEs is

Eclipse CDT[0].  According to this article[1], CDT includes a full

C/C++ parser that's under active development (item 4) as well as

extensive support for static analysis (item 5) and refactoring

(item 6).  Perhaps there are technical or licensing-related issues

(see also item 9 regarding LLVM and Clang) that would make it a bad

fit for integrating with Emacs in some way, but otherwise it might

be worth a look.  The wiki is here[2].

[0] https://www.eclipse.org/cdt/

[1] http://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/october/article1.php

[2] https://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/

Josh