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thanks. it works well most of the time. I have one question though: 
sometimes it will take me to the declaration of the a variable of the 
same name but in a different file. Is there any way I can make sure it 
looks in the current file for the declaration before going to other file?

Lowell

David Kastrup wrote:
> Lowell Kirsh <lkirsh@cs.ubc.ca> writes:
> 
> 
>>Is there an elisp function similar to find-variable-at-point that
>>would work for non-lisp code? I'd like to use it to jump to the
>>declaration of whatever variable is at point.
> 
> 
> First run
> etags *.c *.h
> 
> and then press M-. on the variable in question (specifying the local
> TAGS file that etags generated, if you get asked for it).
>