emacs intellisense

emacs intellisense cscope cedet
arun kumar picture arun kumar · Apr 6, 2010 · Viewed 9.4k times · Source

I know this has been discussed a lot of times but is there any nice how-to for c/c++ intellisense in emacs? I have never been able to set up cedet properly.

Right now I am working on a maintenance project with a huuge code base and it is very difficult to manage without proper intellisense. Currently I am using vim with ctags/cscope and omnicomplete features for intellisense which works great; but I would like to get things to work with emacs.

Answer

rryan picture rryan · Apr 6, 2010

If you cannot get CEDET working, then you could use auto-complete.el combined with CTAGS or just words-in-buffer or words-in-all-buffers. For what it's worth, if you did get CEDET working, then you would have essentially exactly what you want. It works very well for me. Auto-complete, however, is totally generic and supports any number of backends being plugged into it.

See: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AutoComplete

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