Hi folks, Sending this message to the vim_mac group rather than vim_use because I suspect the audience here is more likely to include Objective-C coders.
Wondering what the current "State of the Art" is for Objective-C code completion (that is, omni-completion). As far as I can tell, it basically doesn't exist, as Exuberant Ctags[1] doesn't support Objective-C as of the latest version (5.8, 09 July 2009), so we can't make a tags file. Digging around have found a thread on the ctags-user mailing list[2] in which Andrew Ruder links to a Ctags fork with some support hacked in [3]: "isn't perfect but it does a pretty decent job" according to the author. There's also the etags/ctags tools that come with Mac OS X itself, which according to the man page[4] "understand the syntax of C, Objective C, C++..." (long list of languages), but my experimentation leads me to believe that Objective-C isn't actually supported. At this stage, code completion is about the _only_ thing that is more pleasant in Xcode; for everything else Vim is running circles around it. Cheers, Wincent [1]: http://ctags.sourceforge.net/ [2]: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=a030d93b0903062231w704449bbv6ee963e087131b68%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=ctags-users [3]: http://gitweb.aeruder.net/?p=ctags-objc.git [4]: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/etags.1.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
