From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Loading large/multiple tags files
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:07:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1224630776.557999@arno.fh-trier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1658.1224571528.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Xah <xahlee@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:10:47 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>> does many people use this tags?
>
> How else do you jump to a definition of a function, macro, typedef,
> class, etc., with a single command?
>
> I really don't understand how can a fairly large project be developed
> without TAGS.
>
> (Another necessary component of any reasonable Emacs-based IDE is
> ID-Utils and its Emacs interface "M-x gid".)
>
>> one time i tried to read the manual to see what the heck it is, then
>> it say i need to run some command line tool to compile it first, at
>> which point i think i stopped.
>
> Well, you also need to run a "command line tool" to compile the
> program. With a bit of simple Make magic, the same command will
> automatically update the tag tables for you.
>
>
I believe etags is part of the emacs distribution, I am actually quite
shure :0)
M-! etags -R *
in the root dir
M-.
1 or 2 more Enter and that's it.
It's easier then moving the cursor around with the control keys as a novice.
-ap
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-21 23:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-20 17:17 Loading large/multiple tags files Adrian
2008-10-21 5:03 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.1653.1224565433.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-21 5:10 ` Xah
2008-10-21 6:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1658.1224571528.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-21 21:28 ` Xah
2008-10-21 23:07 ` Andreas Politz [this message]
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