From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bockg=E5rd?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Etags & Ebrowse: Recurse support Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:45:23 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <68c73b1a040929220124ce17a2@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096537563 27400 80.91.229.6 (30 Sep 2004 09:46:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:46:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 30 11:45:51 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CCxVW-0008Fb-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:45:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CCxbu-0002u0-FE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 05:52:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CCxbk-0002tu-9I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 05:52:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CCxbj-0002ti-Tt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 05:52:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CCxbj-0002tf-PH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 05:52:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CCxVE-0006QL-4P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 05:45:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CCxVC-00029O-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:45:30 +0200 Original-Received: from galadriel.dd.chalmers.se ([129.16.117.68]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:45:30 +0200 Original-Received: from bojohan+news by galadriel.dd.chalmers.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:45:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: galadriel.dd.chalmers.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:l1GH8mKMUUI9xG/W+Epdxi31l/0= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27694 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27694 Dhruva Krishnamurthy writes: > 1. I cannot use 'find . -type f | xargs etags ..... > Because the command line argument has a size limit. >>From the Emacs manual: When you want to make a tags table from a great number of files, you may have problems listing them on the command line, because some systems have a limit on its length. The simplest way to circumvent this limit is to tell `etags' to read the file names from its standard input, by typing a dash in place of the file names, like this: find . -name "*.[chCH]" -print | etags - -- Johan Bockgård