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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: how to find delaration of a variable
Date: 23 Apr 2004 01:11:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5n053hakq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c69jco$ppl$1@mughi.cs.ubc.ca

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).

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-22 23:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-22 23:10 how to find delaration of a variable Lowell Kirsh
2004-04-22 23:11 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2004-04-23  1:36   ` Lowell Kirsh
2004-04-24 21:17     ` Kai Grossjohann

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