You can do word completion in emacs -- M-/ . It doesn't know anything about scope, member variables, etc., so instead it searches your current file, other open files, and the kill ring (I think) for words which have the word you're typing now as the prefix. It's definately different from how VC++ does code completion, and but seems to work pretty well, and as a bonus it works with any kind of source file.

You might also want to check out hippie-expand in the emacs docs, and rebind M-/ to hippie-expand. Hippie-expand is the bomb!

You might also want to check out M-x gdb, which starts gdb within emacs, so can then set breakpoints in the source buffer, sourc buffer will track the currently executing line, etc.

I think you can also get a tree class view, but I'm not sure how that works.

(edit: added bit about gdb-in-emacs)

[edited by - Garfong on November 14, 2003 9:06:31 AM]

Word compleation != code compleation, of course.

I think slick edit has a *nix version, though it is a commervial ide it is pretty good.

IDEs can be nice, often just get in the way though, at least for somethings.


For comparison, I use a term window + (g)vim.

I currently lack (to my satisfaction) proper scoped code compleation which is an annoying loss and slows down coding a bit but is by no means fatal.