[cfe-dev] clang indexing server for emacs?

[Ramneek Handa]

On Sunday 29,August,2010 01:47 AM, Ramneek Handa wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>      i was surprised to see a couple of days back that a piece of
> complicated software that i work on was fully compilable by cclang. What
> i was more enthusiastic about was that there were some tiny little
> scripts for emacs which would present completion options using cclangs
> --completion-at instruction. It was able to prove that cclang is ready
> (or close to be ready) for prime time.
>
> I have a question and a suggestion:
> Question:
> Is anyone writing a full fledged backend indexing server for emacs and
> other editors? I see that its possible to provide a very powerful
> indexing services to editors using cclang.
>
> We could have a simple service that listens on a custom protocol
> supporting commands like:
> 1. Load Project:
>      a. sets up std header locations
>      b. sets up project specific header locations etc
>
> 2. Now editing:
>      a. Loads up the current state of the file and returns back a list of
> classes defined and functions in each etc.
>      b. precompiles all headers being used for responding back
> immediately on this file in future.
>      b. a subcommand of "Get Completion" would return completion on this
> file using precompiled headers.
>      d. Get classes, functions, uml associations etc etc etc..
>
> 3. Close project etc.
>
> I am very excited as it now gives us a chance to use emacs the way
> eclipse and other editors have been used (with more intelligence). There
> was a project called XRef which was usable but it doesnt have gnu
> compatible compiler backend (or atleast discontinued a while ago and
> cannot compile boost).
>
> Now you might ask me if i have all these ideas why dont i pick it up?
> Well, honestly i have a full time job and a part time course thats going
> to keep me a lot busy for next 1 year and thats why i asked. I would be
> very interested in mentoring if someone is able to take this up as a uni
> project or something.
>
> Regards,
> Ramneek
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