From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Navigating an enormous code base Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 18:35:04 +0200 Message-ID: <87bkwmo56v.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <877d7aq5qy.fsf@cock.li> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10910"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:RvDV7jgjBfPaf5sQQu2ytD0Fi/U= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 27 18:35:39 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 1njkde-0002eG-Sm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2022 18:35:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43326 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1njkdd-0004B9-Tb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2022 12:35:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58774) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1njkdG-0004Ay-6H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2022 12:35:14 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:42412) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1njkdE-00024F-LF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2022 12:35:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1njkdD-0001tW-26 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2022 18:35:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=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:137052 Archived-At: mrf wrote: >> GNU Global with the ggtags package >> (https://github.com/leoliu/ggtags) help me wrangle my >> Project with roughly 10k source files. Global has an option >> for specifying “nearness” sorting order, taking the >> starting point of teh query into account. >> Completion/narrowing interfaces would 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 What problem(s) in particular are we encountering when the code base gets enormous? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal