Re: [Boost-users] Boost and autocompletion

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost and autocompletion
From: Germán Diago (germandiago_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-09-01 13:24:32

try eclipse with eclipse cdt plugin. In www.eclipse.org you can find a
bundle of "eclipse for c/c++ developers".
That's the one you need.

2009/9/1 Hassan Syed <h.a.syed_at_[hidden]>:
> Hello All,
> I've been trying to get autocompletion to work under Unix. I do not mind
> which editor I use really. I was hoping to get the quality of visual studio
> code completion.
> I have tried VIM/Ctags/Omnicompletion, Netbeans and Eclipse. The first
> option does not work well since ctags has a problem indexing boost, the
> smallest index I could build is 56 mb (after excluding the vector*.hpp
> files).  Netbeans works well however it is dog slow. Eclipse doesn't work at
> all (perhaps I've done something wrong).
> Is there a combination for a posix system that will work well with boost (or
> other template heavy libraries) or do I need to code in visual studio and
> just recompile under a posix system ?. I guess what I could do is hide the
> boost code I use behind my own objects in visual studio and then resume
> development on Posix where it can index my objects nicely.
> It's depressing how bad the code completion engines are in non-Microsoft
> editors for C++ :(. Are there any mechanisms in c++0x to make the template
> code easier to parse for naive code-completion engines ?
> Regards
> Hassan
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