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batista on April 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: XCode Sucks And Here's Why

For C++ and Objective-C XCode absolutely smokes Emacs with regards to code completion.

True AST based code completion aware of all of your constructs without hacks and kludges like ctags and the like...

Ralith on April 4, 2012 | [–]

The Emacs code completion I use hooks Clang, which is the same thing XCode does.

aerique on April 4, 2012 | [–]

Xcode doesn't feel very aware of my constructs since there's so much crap in the completion list. It's not totally useless but could be much better.

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