Emacs as a C++ IDE
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Emacs runs as a practical C++ IDE by auto-detecting CMake projects, running CMake to generate a JSON compilation database, and feeding flags to flycheck, company/auto-complete and an rtags-backed server that uses libclang. It delivers fast jump-to-definition, compiler-accurate autocompletion, on-the-fly squiggles, preprocessed views and “find all overrides” across large projects; the author’s cmake-ide package starts rtags automatically. It works for real codebases but completions can be slow when libclang recompiles complex headers.
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