>From: Abdellatif El Khlifi

>I am trying to use Emacs as an IDE in my Linux kernel development projects.
>So I installed CEDET and GNU Global (gtags) with no problems.
>
>When I open a C source code belonging to my Linux kernel source folder, the
>linux project is detected automatically. Functions, variables, headers and
>other keywords are highlighted correctly.
>
>Through the ~/.emacs file I configured semantic's code completion and
>intellisense. So when I press C-<SPC> the code completion menu appears and I
>can choose what's needed.
>
>The issue is when I use preprocessor defines, the intellisense system shows
>the menu on the current location but doesn't detect the right things when
>invoked (C-<SPC>). Even I close and restart emacs the same behavior is
>reproduced.


I thought that global didn't index preprocessor defines.

If you cd to the directory containing GTAGS and run

   global FOO

where FOO is the name of a #define'd preprocessor symbol, does global
output the file containing the definition?

Steve