Collection Of Emacs Development Environment Tools (original) (raw)
CEDET is a collection of tools written with the end goal of creating an advanced development environment. Emacs already is a great environment for writing software, but there are additional areas that need improvement. Many new ideas for integrated environments have been developed in newer products, such as Microsoft’s Visual Studio environment. CEDET is a new project which brings together the various tools built to replicate these features.
The CEDET home page is http://cedet.sourceforge.net/.
Check out the CEDET Quickstart.
Major Components of CEDET:
- SpeedBar
- EmacsLispObjects (EIEIO)
- SemanticBovinator
- SemanticRecoder (SRecode - A template manager)
- ConnectedGraphEditor (COGRE)
- Makefile Generation and Project Management (EDE)
Small tools in cedet/common
- InVersion - Version checking and requiring
- ModeLocal - Mode-local variables and functions
- PulseRegion - Fancy overlay color blinking
- DataDebug - Utility for browsing arbitrary complex data structures
External tools supported
- GnuGlobal - supported by EDE file search, and semantic symref, and semanticdb
- CScopeAndEmacs - supported by EDE file search, semantic symref, and semanticdb
- IdUtils - supported by EDE file search, and semantic symref.
- Graphviz (dot) - supported by COGRE for diagram layout and export.
- ExuberantCtags - Supported as an alternate parser for Semantic for many languages, like Bourne shell scripts.
- javap - extract symbols from Java .jar files.
- arduino - ArduinoSupport for microcontroller tools for compiling and uploading programs to an Arduino board.
Issues
- Currently CEDET issues a warning “Warning: cedet-called-interactively-p called with 0 arguments, but requires 1”, which can be suppressed by adding
(setq byte-compile-warnings nil)in your .emacs file before CEDET is loaded
Links to some comments, pictures etc
- C/C++ Development Environment for Emacs
- CPlusPlusMode - Built in mode for writing C++ code.
- SemanticLibraryParsing has some special configuration options for parsing certain libraries.
- A (gigantic?) gif demo showing what is supposed to be CEDET/Semantic: The gigantic demo gif (as of Jan 20, 2009, the file’s host, mathrick.org, appears to be gone but there does seem to be a copy of the original file here)
- A blog post with an image: http://vkk.blogspot.com/2005/04/emacs-code-browser.html
- An SWF demo: http://platypope.org/yada/emacs-demo/
- An article about Cedet - how to install and use it.
- Series of blog posts about work with Cedet
- Emacs Auto Completion Quick Note (Korean)
CEDET has changed very much and the development version is the preferred version to use. Bugs are mostly fixed rapidly by EricLudlam.
Another component of CEDET is “Senator”. Someone with better knowledge should delete this section and put description of Senator in the appropriate place.
Here’s a description of one function Senator provides and it’s use: senator-copy-tag - Puts a “tag” (an item definition) into a special “tag ring.”
How to enable the CEDET tools which were merged with Emacs
In Emacs 23.2, CEDET was merged into the main Emacs distribution. The configuration code which is explained in CEDET tutorials doesn’t work anymore. For instance you cannot use (semantic-load-enable-gaudy-code-helpers) to enable the useful features.
TODO: please explain what code you need to load the most useful IDE tools provided by CEDET
I got a basic configuration to work with the following in my .emacs:
(global-ede-mode 1) (require 'semantic/sb) (semantic-mode 1)