Meddle 20050728 review

Meddle is a programmer's text editor that maintains a complete parse tree of the code being edited

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 45K Developer: Elad Lahav

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Meddle is a programmer's text editor that maintains a complete parse tree of the code being edited. This enables Meddle to provide semantic information, such as distinguishing between references to global variables, local variables and parameters.

Meddle currently supports C source and header files only. However, it should be straightforward to convert the YACC source file so that it supports other languages as well.

Limitations:
This version supports C source and header files only.
The only semantic information given is different text formats for different types of identifiers (global variables, functions, local variables, parameters - see screenshot).
Identifiers defined outside the current file are not recognised.
No support for type definitions.
Preprocessor directives are ignored.
Problems with pasting text from external programmes (probably a Qt4 bug).

Requirements:
Qt4. Note that Meddle will not compile with previous versions of Qt.
Bison (tested with version 2.0, may work with 1.875 as well)