Re: [anjuta-devel] Code assistance plugin

[Sébastien Granjoux <seb sfo free fr>]

Hi Massimo,


Le 13/04/2012 22:13, Massimo Cora' a écrit :
> I have never used it. Trying to compile brings to an error as
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/home/pescio/gitroot/gedit-code-assistance/src'
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `gcp.vapi', needed by `all'. Stop.
> even if the configure process ends fine.

I have just tried here and get the same error. In addition the configure 
script is looking for gee-1.0 while after compiling the latest version 
of libgee from GNOME git I get only gee-0.8.


> please forgive me if I'm wrong, but from what I see, and from what I
> already wrote here https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660025#c5
> clang doesn't support a symbol parsing as it's ctags.
> So giving a list of symbols or autocompletion seems difficult to me.
> Checking the clang manual it doesn't mention anything about the symbols,
> but it's a static code analyzer, which instead ctags isn't.

I have looked a bit at clang manual and it looks very thin or I haven't 
found it. It looks like you get information rather in tutorials or by 
reading the code directly.


> even if ctags is a dead project, it could detect symbols and their
> types, which isn't that bad. Some more info would be really appreciated
> on the scanned symbols, but, again, to me ctags seems the only
> opensource choice, with its pros and cons.

I think you can get a syntax tree after parsing a file, I imagine that 
you can search for symbols too. It will be a bit different from ctags 
though because I think at least preprocessor macros are expanded. But 
I'm not sure neither.


> Anyway to me it seems that they can be used both, they could be
> complementary but not exclusive.

I think we can use both. But I think it would be useful to separate the 
parsing part (using ctags currently) from the symbol-db plugin. So we 
could have for C, a parser plugin which is using clang instead/and ctags 
and for the other languages ctags or something else. It's quite 
different from the architecture of the gedit-code-assistance plugin though.


Regards,

Sébastien