Emacs code completion for C/C++? [closed]
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18-09-2019 - |
Question
What can you recommend me ?
Solution 4
CEDET is just great, certainly needs some time at the beginning but worth it though.
OTHER TIPS
You can try company-mode. It's a multi-backend in-buffer completion mechanism.
Watch the screencast to get an idea of how it works.
Some of the back-ends are:
- CEDET Semantic
- dabbrev
- XCode
- PySmell
- Ropemacs
- GNU Global
And it's also available via ELPA.
You could also use an autocomplete plugin for clang as long as your source compiles with it. links:
GCCSense
From the author of Auto Complete Mode. It uses gcc to find candidates for code completion as the name suggests.
I tend to use etags.
For emacs integration: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/html_node/etags.html
For how to run etags. http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs/etags.1.html
As a bonus, this blog post describes a bit more emacs setup and how to use etags. http://tulrich.com/geekstuff/emacs.html
Edit: To answer the comment, after runnning etags across your code, you can complete words with C-x t(that's what it's bound to on my machine.) Or you can call the tag-search method.
to be honest for i like plain old dabbrev-expand (M-/), yes it doesn't use any contextual information other than what characters are adjacent in the open buffers, but on the plus side it doesn't use any contextual information ;) this means you can complete from text you have written first in tests or comments.
for other options http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryCompletion
When I'm editing python code in Emacs, I like and use pysmell for code completion:
I find that learning how to type fast (and having a decent memory) beats auto completion every time. How far must we go to try and dumb down programming?