this may be a stupid idea but

[Joseph Wenninger]

Hi

On Friday 24 May 2002 20:27, Roland Krause wrote:
> has anybody here ever thought of using gdb for code completion?
>
> I was using gdb today from the commandline and came across it's
> wonderful feature to hit "Tab" and get the autocompletion of a class
> name all of its methods and their respective arguments. The wonderful
> thing about it is, it really works, i.e. one does get the whole thing,
> all methods of all baseclasses and all the arguments.
>
> That means that gdb must have a database of all methods (duh, it's a
> debugger), which must come from the information in the binary file
> itself. Now if one could do this for individual files it would be
> perfect.
>
> I have also noticed that this is how VC6 does it. They attempt to
> compile the project when "browse information" is required.
>
> Roland
>
>
>

I think Borland Delphi / C++ / Kylix do that too

Kind regards
Joseph Wenninger