Speedbar, imenu, etags

Speedbar, imenu, etags

[yary]

I've been using etags, with all its warts, happily for over a decade.
I just started using the speedbar, which led me to imenu, which is
good.

But, some of my files have the extension ".js" and are full of
javascript. Etags is generating good-enough tags for me (tags_search
will find relevant functions in them, for example). I expected the
speedbar to show me the tags when I click on the "+", but it just
changes to a "-" with nothing under it.

I thought that speedbar would fall back to etags if imenu failed to
find any tags, but that doesn't seem to be happening. I'm not even
sure if it is finding my etags, since I'm running on W32 and I doubt
the executable is where speedbar could find it.

Is there a variable/config option to set the etags executable
location?

Is there a better way to have imenu/speedbar find the tags in my
javascript files?

thanks in advance

-y

Re: Speedbar, imenu, etags

[yary]

To partly answer my own question-

I started looking for javascript modes, and found this discussion:

http://emacsen.org/2005/09/26-javascript

and found that three recommended modes have varying support for imenu.

The xemacs-default javascript-mode which you can find at
http://cvs.xemacs.org/viewcvs.cgi/XEmacs/packages/xemacs-packages/prog-modes/javascript-mode.el?rev=1.12&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

doesn't help imenu at all

Adding "(require 'generic-x)" to my .emacs and using the generic
javascript helped a little, it can find the top level "var foo="
statements to imenu.

But I don't use those much, am using the technique of making one top-
level variable and using it as a namespace.

Karl Landström's javascript mode isn't putting in my top-level var,
but it IS adding the top-level var's properties, which is just what I
need! And he also provides a CSS mode.

http://web.comhem.se/~u34308910/emacs.html

So, I'm back in business.

I'm still curious about the etags fallback option, so if anyone cares
to chime in about it, that'd be swell.

-y