gid doc?

gid doc?

[brian.auld]

Can anyone recommand a url or howto or manual that talks about using 'gid' with emacs.

On the recommendation of others, I'm trying to use it. I'm having trouble getting comfortable with it, and 'info id-utils' is pretty thin...

Thanks,

Brian

Re: gid doc?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: brian.auld@adic.com
> Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 11:27:51 -0700
> 
> Can anyone recommand a url or howto or manual that talks about using 'gid' with emacs.

There's the "M-x gid" command, and that's about all there is to it.

RE: gid doc?

[brian.auld]

Are there any particular guidelines for using gid in the kernel tree. These are the steps I took: 

1) built id-utils
2) moved id-utils.el to ~/.emacs-lisp directory
3) added the following lines to .emacs file to automatically
   load id-utils.el on startup:

(setq load-path (append load-path (list ~/.emacs-lisp")))

(autoload 'gid "id-utils" "Interface to ID Utils" t)

4) Built ID database (from kernel source root dir):
   find . -name "*.[chyCHY]" | xargs mkid

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When I try and run 'M-x gid' on a symbol. I know I had it working at one time, but now it's belly up. Is my 'find ...' in error?

Any pointers would be appreciated.

-- Brian



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:eliz@elta.co.il]
> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 11:32 PM
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> Subject: Re: gid doc?
> 
> > From: brian.auld@adic.com
> > Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 11:27:51 -0700
> >
> > Can anyone recommand a url or howto or manual that talks about using
> 'gid' with emacs.
> 
> There's the "M-x gid" command, and that's about all there is to it.
> 
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Re: gid doc?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: brian.auld@adic.com
> Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 07:06:05 -0700
> 
> 1) built id-utils
> 2) moved id-utils.el to ~/.emacs-lisp directory
> 3) added the following lines to .emacs file to automatically
>    load id-utils.el on startup:
> 
> (setq load-path (append load-path (list ~/.emacs-lisp")))
> 
> (autoload 'gid "id-utils" "Interface to ID Utils" t)

This is all correct.

> 4) Built ID database (from kernel source root dir):
>    find . -name "*.[chyCHY]" | xargs mkid

This is not what I do.  Simply type this:

     mkid .

If you only want C and C++ files, use the --exclude, --include and
--languages switches to control mkid.

> When I try and run 'M-x gid' on a symbol. I know I had it working at one time, but now it's belly up.

What exactly fails?  What error messages?

Re: gid doc?

[Kai Großjohann]

brian.auld@adic.com writes:

> 4) Built ID database (from kernel source root dir):
>    find . -name "*.[chyCHY]" | xargs mkid

xargs reads some file names from stdin, invokes mkid with them, then
reads more file names, invokes mkid again.  So what will happen is
this:

mkid file1 ... file100
mkid file101 ... file200
mkid file201 file202 file203

This is assuming that xargs reads chunks of 100 file names each and
there are 203 files.

Does mkid overwrite its database on each call?
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