[cfe-dev] Suggest to remove utils/clang-completion-mode.el

[Manuel Klimek via cfe-dev]

I'm fine with deleting it - given the problems you raise, having it in the
repo in the current state is probably doing more harm than good.

On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 6:26 PM Philipp Stephani <phst at google.com> wrote:

> Hi Clang developers,
>
> I've seen that there is a Clang-based completion plugin for Emacs in
> utils/clang-completion-mode.el. However, that library appears unmaintained
> (last change was more than four years ago) and not widely used (I've found
> only one old blog post -
> https://kristianrumberg.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/smart-autocompletion-for-c-in-emacs/ -
> about it on the web). Also it doesn't use any of the standard completion
> frontends (company, auto-complete), but massively changes keyboard input
> (e.g. rebinds almost all normal keys). The initial revision was described
> as "Experimental, ultra-hacking" and I wouldn't say the code quality has
> improved much since then (e.g. it uses very short variable names for global
> variables, even though Elisp doesn't have namespaces). Furthermore, when I
> tried to use clang-completion-mode.el, I wasn't able to get it working at
> all, but it nevertheless disturbs editing massively (e.g. no longer
> allowing the user to enter a space). On the other hand, there are now
> multiple well-maintained Clang-based completion frameworks (
> https://github.com/abingham/emacs-ycmd,
> https://github.com/brianjcj/auto-complete-clang) available that don't
> suffer from any of these problems. Overall I'd suggest to remove
> clang-completion-mode.el.
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Philipp
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