I am not arguing the merits of Clang versus some other tool, either. I am arguing against the claim that a monolithic app like Emacs that bundles a specific to

I am not arguing the merits of Clang versus some other tool, either. I am arguing against the claim that a monolithic app like Emacs that bundles a specific tool is somehow qualitatively superior to any other tool which does not bundle a specific tool. > But by its design it can not look for headers in appropriate locations I think that's a perfectly valid design. I would rather want to spend 10 seconds adding a path to my project's config file than spend an eternity with just ctags. :-) > Also it can not parse partially erroneous code. Of course it can. Clang recovers from partially invalid code just fine. For example, if I do something like "typedef enum { a, b, 3 } foo bar;" (constituting two syntax errors), it will still correctly autocomplete "foo" as well as its values, even though the type is strictly incomplete.