____rkaup__·Jul 28, 2011
For C and C++, clang_complete gives pretty good completion.
https://github.com/Rip-Rip/clang_complete
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clang_complete
Vim plugin that use clang for completing C/C++ code.
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Vim plugin that use clang for completing C/C++ code.
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| 2011 | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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2 sourcesIf you compile recent clang, it supports range based for loops.
Using https://github.com/Rip-Rip/clang_complete you can use smart context-aware completion with vim/emacs.
For example if you had this code:
vector<string> vec;
for (auto &x : vec) {
x
and then if you typed period (.), it would show members from std::string. I'd say it works better than Intellisense (it's very precise and you use the same parser for code completion and final compilation).
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