Need help in building etags for emacs on MacOS

Need help in building etags for emacs on MacOS

[Lucius Fox]

Hi,

i am trying to following the steps here
http://frodo.syminet.com/~deep/emacside.html to build etags for emacs.

Assuming CODEDIR to be the top-level source directory, first update
your ~/.bashrc like so:
alias mktags='cd $CODEDIR && etags `find $CODEDIR -name "*.[h|c]"` && cd -'
Then run:

source ~/.bashrc
mktags

but when i try that on MacOS, I get this error:

$  mktags
-bash: /usr/bin/etags: Argument list too long


Can you please tell me how to get it to work?

Re: Need help in building etags for emacs on MacOS

[Nurullah Akkaya]

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On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Lucius Fox <lucius.fox08@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> i am trying to following the steps here
> http://frodo.syminet.com/~deep/emacside.html<http://frodo.syminet.com/%7Edeep/emacside.html>to build etags for emacs.
>
> Assuming CODEDIR to be the top-level source directory, first update
> your ~/.bashrc like so:
> alias mktags='cd $CODEDIR && etags `find $CODEDIR -name "*.[h|c]"` && cd -'
> Then run:
>
> source ~/.bashrc
> mktags
>
> but when i try that on MacOS, I get this error:
>
> $  mktags
> -bash: /usr/bin/etags: Argument list too long
>
>
> Can you please tell me how to get it to work?
>
>
>
I use

find . -type f -name \"*.java\" | etags -

to create tags for java files on OS X.

-- 
Nurullah Akkaya
http://nakkaya.com

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