code browsing, refactoring, auto completion in Emacs

Question

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 symbo

Answer 1

Personally, I don't like cedet. It makes Emacs take an hour to load. The auto-complete feature has never worked quite right with me. I don't need its project-management nor its UML features. The only thing I miss about it is the Emacs Code Browser, which is very useful but requires cedet

I would advice you to just use cscope and etags and see how you like them. You can install cedet later once you're more familiar with emacs.