Re: code completion

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)"]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:56:11 +0100
> >
> > I have a nasty
> > feeling that using emacs as a C/C++ IDE might be coming to the end of
> > the road as it falls behind in many of the features (code completion,
> > refactoring for an example) that more modern IDEs like Eclipse
> > provides. The maintainer of ecb as good as said the same. A shame.
>
> It's indeed a shame that no one of you young programmers who need this
> ``modern IDE'' stuff steps forward to add such features to Emacs.
> Don't just rely on us old farts!
>
> Every useful feature in Emacs (and elsewhere in Free Software) started
> as a programmer's itch.  There's nothing particularly hard about
> adding this, much of the infrastructure is already there.  All you
> need is a little time and some will power.


It looks to me like Eric Ludlam is very actively developing 
CEDET/Semantic/EDE right now.

I do not understand these things very well at all, but is not that a 
very promising framework?