Re: Generators (iterators) for Gnu Emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

> Seriously: Yes, the parser could be improved. But it still would have
> several drawbacks compared to grep et al.:

> . It is slow.
> . You need to set up some kind of project beforehand so that Semantic
>   knows what to parse and where to find dependencies.
> . It will only work inside Emacs.
> . I guess that Changelog thingy will become more complicated.
> . Did I mention it's slow?

> I'm all for it.

As mentioned in my sample grep command, it'd have to parse all the emacs
and elpa Elisp files, in order to find all potential references.


        Stefan