Emacs 24.1 released

Posted Jun 15, 2012 12:42 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Yes, here.

My entire autocompletion configuration (using auto-complete.el to provide completion with intellisense-style pull-down menus that vanish at convenient times: tweaked locally, may be full of horrible typos):

(require 'cedet)
(require 'semantic)
(require 'srecode)
(require 'auto-complete-config)

;; Turn on project management.

(setq ede-locate-setup-options '(ede-locate-global ede-locate-locate ede-locate-base))
(global-ede-mode 1)
(global-srecode-minor-mode 1)

;; Kick off the semantic bovinator, function menu, C-warning mode, and flashing
;; brackets.

(setq semantic-default-submodes (append semantic-default-submodes
                                        '(global-semantic-idle-local-symbol-highlight-mode
                                          global-semantic-idle-summary-mode
                                          global-semantic-decoration-mode
                                          global-semantic-highlight-func-mode
                                          global-semantic-stickyfunc-mode
                                          global-semantic-show-unmatched-syntax-mode
                                          global-semantic-mru-bookmark-mode)))

(setq semantic-decoration-styles '(("semantic-decoration-on-includes" . t)
                                   ("semantic-decoration-on-protected-members")
                                   ("semantic-decoration-on-private-members")))

(semantic-mode 1)
(semanticdb-enable-gnu-global-databases 'c-mode)
(semanticdb-enable-gnu-global-databases 'c++-mode)

;; auto-complete should use Semantic.

(ac-config-default)
(ac-set-trigger-key "TAB")

(defun nix-setup-auto-complete-semantic ()
  "Arrange to do semantic autocompletion."
  (add-to-list 'ac-sources 'ac-source-semantic))

(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'nix-setup-auto-complete-semantic t)

;; Some key bindings

(define-key semantic-mode-map (kbd "C-c , .") 'semantic-ia-fast-jump)
(define-key semantic-mode-map (kbd "C-c , P") 'semantic-analyze-proto-impl-toggle)
(define-key semantic-mode-map (kbd "C-c , h") 'semantic-decoration-include-visit)

(I use GNU GLOBAL as a better tagging system and to help CEDET identify headers and associated things in projects rapidly: if I haven't run gtags, it'll use the locate database instead, and if even that isn't enough it'll fall back to find(1). There are other possibilities too.)

That's enough global setup for C and C++ code to work, and almost all of it is unnecessary -- the system will sort of work with nothing but (semantic-mode 1). But you want some local per-project setup too, so it knows where your headers are and what #defines to apply when parsing them and stuff like that. Projects using Autoconf and Automake, and a few major projects such as the Linux kernel, are automatically detected, but for others you might need something like this for each project:

(ede-cpp-root-project "Blah Project" :file "/home/nix/src/blah/Makerules"
    :include-path '("/include" "/local/include")
    :system-include-path '("/home/nix/src/otherproject/include" "/usr/include")
    :spp-table '(("_GNU_SOURCE" . "") ("_FILE_OFFSET_BITS" . "64") ("WOMBLE" . "foo")))

Here, the :file is the name of some file whose presence indicates that this project exists, :include-path is the include path for project-local headers to search for (initial / indicates "relative to project root directory"), :system-include-path is the include path for stuff coming from other projects and systemwide (often just "/usr/include"), and :spp-table is a bunch of #defines you want set. (There are lots of other ways of adding projects, and defining your own is not very hard: see /usr/share/emacs/*/lisp/cedet/ede/proj-*.el.gz.)