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Benjamin Rutt <rutt.4+news@osu.edu> wrote in message news:<87ekkdtmmb.fsf@penguin.brutt.org>...
> Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I want to produce a tags-file for a code which is spread over several
> > directories. I am not able to find any option for etags to handle this. Just
> > with the simple 'etags *' I get following for all directories:
> >
> >  'directory': it is not a regular file.
> >
> > Does anybody have an idea?
> 
> I see from the headers that you are on linux.  Then you certainly have
> the 'find' command.  Try the following command from the root directory
> of your source tree:
> 
> etags `find . -type f`

This is a function that I use to create a tags file for all files in
the current directory and all its sub-directories:

(defun create-tags-here ()
  "Create tags file with current directory as root."
  (interactive)
  (shell-command "find . -type f -name *.[hC] | etags -"))