From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: mrf Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Navigating an enormous code base Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 11:36:11 +0300 Message-ID: <877d7aq5qy.fsf@cock.li> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31207"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: mu4e 1.5.8; emacs 28.1 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Marcus Harnisch Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 27 10:55:22 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1njdSE-0007vV-DL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2022 10:55:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37536 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1njdSD-00022y-Ea for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2022 04:55:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36110) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1njdMS-0003o9-H5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2022 04:49:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [37.120.193.124] (port=44032 helo=mail.cock.li) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1njdMP-00086J-7S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2022 04:49:23 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=cock.li; s=mail; t=1651048781; bh=jpdoETi12sizP0fzp1PMWVRv0MAkBo2cSRekHddsVTU=; h=References:From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-reply-to:From; b=NbRW9QGjA36aazI5ndPlbkdeIxBFdDhvGUN02uNMr5fn+B4EZ7auut2+OgMjjul2e QBwR1aViC33FVaadWmRq8K413mA6Pj7X30avfvLttobL6syEj3gOr24v7bNLN8FiSY C3Ggv5jS1usfDfPtKnjjJj1BpbGTDy1I2GE4LIYn/Hv2m0e69xXVWDoUM4kjCAEHpO Y0KS2r0tTZSmTD8HDOYpDIyqn9o13v2T1IJWOFDrfMa57C8XXSIpcvuzQnjyJurl/c JlWHCCBQs0mPApZD4LWwSopwehQHQGr+yg5TsLkgaFVexmAWHKFw5cOSkp6c9goGrZ e4xJD35bxn1wg== In-reply-to: X-Host-Lookup-Failed: Reverse DNS lookup failed for 37.120.193.124 (failed) Received-SPF: pass client-ip=37.120.193.124; envelope-from=joinlaw@cock.li; helo=mail.cock.li X-Spam_score_int: -12 X-Spam_score: -1.3 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RDNS_NONE=0.793, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137046 Archived-At: Marcus Harnisch writes: > GNU Global with the ggtags package (https://github.com/leoliu/ggtags)=20 > help me wrangle my Project with roughly 10k source files. Global has an=20 > option for specifying =E2=80=9Cnearness=E2=80=9D sorting order, taking th= e starting=20 > point of teh query into account. Completion/narrowing interfaces would=20 > still present all candidates, but the nearer ones come out first. > > I am quite happily using ggtags with Helm in this setup. I prefer GNU global but also there is other options that have emacs integration like CTags and CScope: http://ctags.sourceforge.net/ http://cscope.sourceforge.net/