Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft

Posted Jan 25, 2014 12:09 UTC (Sat) by suy (guest, #81959)
In reply to: Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft by jgg
Parent article: Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft

I am quite surprised of reading that Emacs doesn't have such support, since even Vim, with it's bad support for asynchronous task (only through complex hacks) has several plugins that interact with clang or libclang to provide completion and more.

Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft

Posted Jan 25, 2014 23:49 UTC (Sat) by deepfire (guest, #26138) [Link] (2 responses)

Why, sure emacs has it -- https://github.com/Golevka/emacs-clang-complete-async is one of them - I think I remember seeing others on ELPA.

Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft

Posted Jan 26, 2014 14:22 UTC (Sun) by jwakely (subscriber, #60262) [Link]

Yes, I think the debate was over whether to include something like that in the official emacs repo, rather than as a third-party thing.

Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft

Posted Jan 27, 2014 3:57 UTC (Mon) by jgg (subscriber, #55211) [Link]

There are actually several attempts at integration with various degrees of success.. But non are officially supported by emacs - and IMHO the trouble with these schemes is that emacs itself doesn't have great core support for the kind of UI you'd want to create once you have realtime context sensitive code parsing.

Nobody will work on the core support if there is no supportable back end module :(