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Will be great to have something like this in Emacs.

by fourier 12y ago

Jeaye 12y ago
After looking, I'm astonished that this doesn't exist in Emacs. There is a completion plugin using libclang; maybe the highlighting could just be added into it. On vim's side, YouCompleteMe explicitly denied my approach to integrate highlighting.
- captainmuon 12y ago
  I hacked together something to add at least #ifdef highlighting* to YouCompleteMe. It's not quite ready to share due to some bugs, but I'm planning to release it as a patch / friendly fork when I find some time. I believe there's no reason to have two plugins each running an instance of clang. * i.e. showing parts of code that are ifdef'ed out in grey
  - lsiebert 12y ago
    it would be nice if it could hook into YCM's config file instead of needing a separate one, when available.
    - Jeaye 12y ago
      Yeah, that's something I considered from the start. The issue is that, in order for that to work reliably, color_coded would basically need an embedded Python interpreter. YCM's config file can contain arbitrary python functions and doesn't really need to follow any standards. This makes it hard on color_coded and ultimately didn't seem worth the trouble.
- 616c 12y ago
  Uh, what? http://truongtx.me/2013/03/10/emacs-setting-up-perfect-environment-for-cc-programming/ http://truongtx.me/2013/03/10/emacs-setting-up-perfect-envir...
  - Jeaye 12y ago
    I don't see real-time semantic highlighting using an embedded compiler there. Maybe I missed it.
    - 616c 12y ago
      My bad, I assumed it included highlighting, but it appears it is just auto-complete from Clang. https://github.com/brianjcj/auto-complete-clang https://github.com/brianjcj/auto-complete-clang That being said, if the core infrastructure is there, the hard part (Clang backend) is there, how much more can semantic highlighting be? (I duck because I write amateurish code and do not do C/C++ yet, but would hopefully learn to do something awesome like that one day.)
- davidshepherd7 12y ago
  Have you got a plain text version of the highlighted source examples somewhere? I want to compare it with emacs' default highlighting (I think default emacs highlights almost as much as the "After color_coded" screen shot).
  - Jeaye 12y ago
    The first picture is from the color_coded source itself: https://github.com/jeaye/color_coded/blob/master/include/async/queue.hpp#L30 https://github.com/jeaye/color_coded/blob/master/include/asy... The second picture is from my C++14 JSON library: https://github.com/jeaye/jeayeson/blob/master/include/jeayeson/value.hpp#L69 https://github.com/jeaye/jeayeson/blob/master/include/jeayes...
    - davidshepherd7 12y ago
      Thanks, for anyone curious here's what emacs does with the first example: http://imgur.com/Rddi9QH http://imgur.com/Rddi9QH compare with color_coded: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/5cf719c6357f27b86c45bf9b5461686c70e322ef/687474703a2f2f6a656179652e636f6d2f63632f7472696d6d65645f63635f745f7965735f332e706e67 https://camo.githubusercontent.com/5cf719c6357f27b86c45bf9b5... So it looks like color_coded can highlight at least a few things that default emacs doesn't: function calls, variables (when they are used, both can highlight declarations) and non-standard type template parameters.

Will be great to have something like this in Emacs.

by fourier 12y ago

Will be great to have something like this in Emacs.

Jeaye 12y ago

After looking, I'm astonished that this doesn't exist in Emacs. There is a completion plugin using libclang; maybe the highlighting could just be added into it. On vim's side, YouCompleteMe explicitly denied my approach to integrate highlighting.

captainmuon 12y ago
I hacked together something to add at least #ifdef highlighting* to YouCompleteMe. It's not quite ready to share due to some bugs, but I'm planning to release it as a patch / friendly fork when I find some time. I believe there's no reason to have two plugins each running an instance of clang. * i.e. showing parts of code that are ifdef'ed out in grey
- lsiebert 12y ago
  it would be nice if it could hook into YCM's config file instead of needing a separate one, when available.
  - Jeaye 12y ago
    Yeah, that's something I considered from the start. The issue is that, in order for that to work reliably, color_coded would basically need an embedded Python interpreter. YCM's config file can contain arbitrary python functions and doesn't really need to follow any standards. This makes it hard on color_coded and ultimately didn't seem worth the trouble.
616c 12y ago
Uh, what? http://truongtx.me/2013/03/10/emacs-setting-up-perfect-environment-for-cc-programming/ http://truongtx.me/2013/03/10/emacs-setting-up-perfect-envir...
- Jeaye 12y ago
  I don't see real-time semantic highlighting using an embedded compiler there. Maybe I missed it.
  - 616c 12y ago
    My bad, I assumed it included highlighting, but it appears it is just auto-complete from Clang. https://github.com/brianjcj/auto-complete-clang https://github.com/brianjcj/auto-complete-clang That being said, if the core infrastructure is there, the hard part (Clang backend) is there, how much more can semantic highlighting be? (I duck because I write amateurish code and do not do C/C++ yet, but would hopefully learn to do something awesome like that one day.)
davidshepherd7 12y ago
Have you got a plain text version of the highlighted source examples somewhere? I want to compare it with emacs' default highlighting (I think default emacs highlights almost as much as the "After color_coded" screen shot).
- Jeaye 12y ago
  The first picture is from the color_coded source itself: https://github.com/jeaye/color_coded/blob/master/include/async/queue.hpp#L30 https://github.com/jeaye/color_coded/blob/master/include/asy... The second picture is from my C++14 JSON library: https://github.com/jeaye/jeayeson/blob/master/include/jeayeson/value.hpp#L69 https://github.com/jeaye/jeayeson/blob/master/include/jeayes...
  - davidshepherd7 12y ago
    Thanks, for anyone curious here's what emacs does with the first example: http://imgur.com/Rddi9QH http://imgur.com/Rddi9QH compare with color_coded: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/5cf719c6357f27b86c45bf9b5461686c70e322ef/687474703a2f2f6a656179652e636f6d2f63632f7472696d6d65645f63635f745f7965735f332e706e67 https://camo.githubusercontent.com/5cf719c6357f27b86c45bf9b5... So it looks like color_coded can highlight at least a few things that default emacs doesn't: function calls, variables (when they are used, both can highlight declarations) and non-standard type template parameters.