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From: Ken Goldman <kgold@watson.ibm.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emac in large projects
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:49:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45e837b9$1@news.greennet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1171900635.549711.91890@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>

Ask wrote:
> 
> I am a new learner of Emacs. How is it used for large projects. At
> least, how do we find all occurrences of a function, how do we jump to
> definition of a variable or function. There are other tools to do that
> - gid, cscope etc. Can it be done from within the emacs editor
> itself ?

The ...tag function previously described are fine.

Another solution is to run grep within emacs, and then click on a hit or 
step through the hits.  It's not context sensitive like the tags 
feature, but it requires no preprocessing and works for any directory
regardless if the programming language.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-01 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-19 15:57 emac in large projects Ask
2007-02-19 18:52 ` Robert Thorpe
2007-02-19 18:58 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2007-02-19 19:21   ` Tassilo Horn
2007-02-20 15:26     ` Hadron
2007-03-01 14:49 ` Ken Goldman [this message]
2007-03-01 16:07   ` Hadron
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-20 21:42 A Soare
     [not found] <mailman.4825.1172007761.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-20 22:43 ` Hadron

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