CEDET is a Collection of Emacs Development Environment Tools written with the end goal of creating an advanced development environment in Emacs. CEDET is hosted at Source Forge and is Free Software. You can view CEDET's CVS archive, project summary, and mailing lists at the CEDET Project page. Why is CEDET needed?

Setting up a tool as large and complex as CEDET can seem daunting. Fortunately, a minimal CEDET initialization can take up only a couple lines of code in your .emacs file.

The CEDET Project management system provides a few simple keystrokes for organizing your files, building Makefiles or Automake files, and compiling your sources. If you don't want CEDET to manage your Makefiles, CEDET will still be able to identify some types of projects based on pre-existing build configurations, such as the Emacs sources, the ...

Adding support for a language under CEDET can be challenging as the language will need to be "made to fit" a generic tagging infrastructure so that applications built on top of CEDET can work in a language agnostic way.

The CEDET infrastructure for parsing and tagging files, and analyzing source code is one of the most accurate completion tools for C++ anywhere. It will correctly handle inheritance scoping rules, templates, smart-pointers, and automatically …

CEDET's code generate is based on a module called SRecode, which is the "Semantic Recoder". As the name suggests, this tool can take information generated from the Semantic parsing/tagging tool, and convert that back into source code.

CEDET lets you create UML diagrams either by hand, or automatically generate simple 3-tier class diagrams from your sources. The diagrams are linked to your source-code, so you can browse quickly through you code from the convenience of UML.

All the CEDET tools are available from a single distribution file to ease installation. Latest Stable Release: CEDET 1.1. Try out cedet-1.1.tar.gz. CEDET 1.1 includes all the security fixes from 1.0.1, a long list of bug fixes, and additional new features …

CEDET 1.1 includes all the security fixes from 1.0.1, a long list of bug fixes, and additional new features to support Java, Android and Arduino programming! Our goal for CEDET 1.1 is that this will be the LAST release using the current install and file organization schemes.

CEDET uses Buildbot to automatically check the latest revision for compile errors. CEDET also ships with a bunch of unit and integration tests, which are also run by the Buildbot, on different platforms as well as with different Emacs versions.