From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Loading large/multiple tags files Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:07:04 +0200 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1224630776.557999@arno.fh-trier.de> References: <5db859a0810201017w7f66df4fl723c47c827a02fd@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224632444 31369 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2008 23:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:40:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 22 01:41:45 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KsQr5-0004Oh-Rl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:41:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54853 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KsQq0-0006gO-F9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:40:32 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!inka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1224630802 8420 143.93.54.11 (21 Oct 2008 23:13:22 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:13:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) In-Reply-To: Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-210-085.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163670 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59010 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Xah >> 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