code browsing, refactoring, auto completion in Emacs

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Published on 2009-03-22T18:34:06Z Indexed on 2010/04/05 6:53 UTC
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Hi,

I recently switched to Emacs and still finding my way through it. I code in C++ and was wondering what tools out there extend Emacs to support code browsing (finding a symbol etc), refactoring and code completion. I have heard of:

  • cedet
  • etags
  • cscope

But I'm so confused about what I need. Some places say that cedet provides all of the functionality but other places say that I need to invoke etags for cedet to work properly.

Can someone clear this up for me? Do I need all of these tools?

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