I have a dream! C# Code Completion in Emacs (csense, dabbrev, etc)

No good options here.

I know, dabbrev does some neat things. But it pales in comparison to real code completion as you get in Visual Studio, or, I think, even SharpDevelop.

I checked out a module called csense that a lone developer hacked together last year. The goal of the project looked simple, focused, valuable: real code completion in Emacs for C# !!! Whoohoo!!!!! but

• The implementation looks incomplete 
• There are no docs 
• I couldn't even figure out how to initially install it
• nobody is using it; there were 33 downloads and I think I was about 8 of them.
• I couldn't figure out how to configure it or what the various vars did, without wading in knee deep into elisp code.
• after bumping around in the dark, I did get a popup to show a class definnition when I hovered on XmlReader, for example
• But when I tried to get the code-completion to work, I consistently got the result that my editing buffer would just silently close. (I guess I didn't want to edit that file anyway.)
• It appears to be, as someone else said, "abandonware"

So the search continues.  Real code completion looks to be pretty hard to get, and not easy to implement.

I think the next thing I may do is check out CSDE.

Jeez I hope I don't start considering implementing this meself. That would be a disaster. Somebody stop me.

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 15, 2008
  PingBack from http://microsoftnews.askpcdoc.com/?p=2666

• Anonymous
  April 15, 2008
  No you shouldn't stop :) I'd love to have it on my arsenal. Thanks for the efforts though.

• Anonymous
  April 15, 2008
  I think everything you want is here: http://cedet.sourceforge.net/semantic.shtml Semantic is what JDEE uses to provide code completion, and the page above claims grammars are already available for C#

• Anonymous
  April 16, 2008
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• Anonymous
  April 21, 2008
  In my prior post I wrote that I have a dream of getting c# code completion in emacs. Jason Rumney wrote