At 08:32 AM 2/3/00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>I snarfed some cool code from jde-complete to make jde-help-class a bit
>better.
>
>I basicly took the part of the code that determines what type a variable or
>method belongs to, then invokes help on that class.
>
>So if have some code like..
>
>String s = "something";
>
>yada = s.substri I could hit (ctrl-f1 for me) here and get the help for
>string. It would be even cooler if it would go straight to the method
>declaration, that looks pretty dificult tho.
>
>Kinda helpful if you don't want to move the cursor back to the declaration.
>
>Some questions:
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>- I just stole this code from jde-complete... It might be helpful to add
>another jde function "jde-type-for-thing-at-point" that would look up what
>something is defined as. This function could be used by jde-complete and
>anything else that needed the functionality.
Good idea. I will add this function to jde-parse.el.
>- Is anyone actively working on jde-complete? I've found it extremely
>useful, but it could be much better if someone would complete the two
>features marked as "easy" in the jde-complete.el to-do list.
>
Yes, I'm working on jde-complete. I'll add your feature. I plan to fix the
lack of support for completing. static fields. I also plan to provide
support for the coding style that puts field declarations at the end of a
class instead of the beginning. Currently complete does not work in this case.
- Paul
