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From: Hadron <hadronquark@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emac in large projects
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:07:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zm6xdk2b.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 45e837b9$1@news.greennet.net

Ken Goldman <kgold@watson.ibm.com> writes:

> Ask wrote:
>>
>> I am a new learner of Emacs. How is it used for large projects. At
>> least, how do we find all occurrences of a function, how do we jump to
>> definition of a variable or function. There are other tools to do that
>> - gid, cscope etc. Can it be done from within the emacs editor
>> itself ?
>
> The ...tag function previously described are fine.
>
> Another solution is to run grep within emacs, and then click on a hit
> or step through the hits.  It's not context sensitive like the tags
> feature, but it requires no preprocessing and works for any directory
> regardless if the programming language.

There is a cscope interface for emacs. I recommend it. tags are
extremely limited imo. cscope does a much better, if slower, job.

google up xcscope.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-01 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-19 15:57 emac in large projects Ask
2007-02-19 18:52 ` Robert Thorpe
2007-02-19 18:58 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2007-02-19 19:21   ` Tassilo Horn
2007-02-20 15:26     ` Hadron
2007-03-01 14:49 ` Ken Goldman
2007-03-01 16:07   ` Hadron [this message]
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2007-02-20 21:42 A Soare
     [not found] <mailman.4825.1172007761.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-20 22:43 ` Hadron

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