KDEStudio code completion (was Re: KDevelop Roadmap 2001)

[Ralf Nolden]

Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> 
> On Friday 02 March 2001 11:44, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> 
> > -code completion (maybe) if the code of KDEStudio can fit into KDevelop.
> 
> I don't mean to sound rude but unless the KDEStudio has completely changed
> the way it performs code completion since last time I tried it (the 1.0
> release), I don't think you want to reuse that.
> 
> KDEStudio achieves code completion by running g++ and parsing the error
> messages. While this is a very neat hack, in practice it's totally unsuable.
> 
> I strongly doubt there is a way to get code completion working in a useable
> way without having the editor "understand" the code at the syntactical level
> (and yes, that's a major development).

We know that and we have discussed this many times. The approaches taken
up until now lead to the result of nothing. The conclusion is:

a) kdestudio has code-completion, kdevelop doesn't
b) kdevelop is much more usable all in all but it just lacks this
feature that is more a PR issue than anything else. I've tried the
code-completion and it works halfway. 
c) the kdevelop versions following 1.4, i.e. 2.0, 2.1 etc that ship with
KDE 2.x are as said the last line of the "old" code, that is why I
pointed to HEAD for real serious work on our own code-completion etc.

result is that we don't have anything to loose except adding a feature
to 2.0 that the user can use or doesn't use. From the user's point of
view, the old users are confident with 2.0 if the rest works, the new
users and kdestudio users that are keen on this code-completion stuff
will not bother because it works and there's nothing better available at
the moment :-) 

That's the reason I vote for putting that in if someone is interested. I
repeat Werner's opinion, a half-code-completion is better than no
code-completion at all :-))

Ralf
-- 
Finally, even I have to admit that being myself was the best thing
that ever could have happened to me. - Le Grand Charmeur

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