Re: Loading large/multiple tags files

[Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Xah <xahlee@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:10:47 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>> does many people use this tags?
> 
> How else do you jump to a definition of a function, macro, typedef,
> class, etc., with a single command?
> 
> I really don't understand how can a fairly large project be developed
> without TAGS.
> 
> (Another necessary component of any reasonable Emacs-based IDE is
> ID-Utils and its Emacs interface "M-x gid".)
> 
>> one time i tried to read the manual to see what the heck it is, then
>> it say i need to run some command line tool to compile it first, at
>> which point i think i stopped.
> 
> Well, you also need to run a "command line tool" to compile the
> program.  With a bit of simple Make magic, the same command will
> automatically update the tag tables for you.
> 
> 

I believe etags is part of the emacs distribution, I am actually quite
shure :0)

M-! etags -R *
in the root dir
M-.
1 or 2 more Enter and that's it.

It's easier then moving the cursor around with the control keys as a novice.

-ap