Difference between 'Emacs with cscope' and etags

Difference between 'Emacs with cscope' and etags

[Lucius Fox]

Hi,

Can you please me understand what is the difference between cscope
integration with emacs (using xcope, which describes here)

http://frodo.syminet.com/~deep/emacside.html

and etags?

Thank you.

Re: Difference between 'Emacs with cscope' and etags

[Richard Riley]

Lucius Fox <lucius.fox08@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Can you please me understand what is the difference between cscope
> integration with emacs (using xcope, which describes here)
>
> http://frodo.syminet.com/~deep/emacside.html
>
> and etags?
>
> Thank you.
>
>

http://cscope.sourceforge.net/

cscope is better in my opinion. It deals with C far more intelligently
as a browse of the page above should explain.

Re: Difference between 'Emacs with cscope' and etags

[Lucius Fox]

The link http://frodo.syminet.com/~deep/emacside.html does point to
use http://cscope.sourceforge.net/

Symbol Lookup with cscope

Download cscope program, and xcscope.el and cscope-indexer from an OSS
repository. Save the xcscope.el onto some directory in Emacs'
load-path. Edit your ~/.emacs as follows:


On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Richard Riley
<rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Lucius Fox <lucius.fox08@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can you please me understand what is the difference between cscope
>> integration with emacs (using xcope, which describes here)
>>
>> http://frodo.syminet.com/~deep/emacside.html
>>
>> and etags?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>
> http://cscope.sourceforge.net/
>
> cscope is better in my opinion. It deals with C far more intelligently
> as a browse of the page above should explain.
>