From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: IDE versus emacs Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 10:33:44 +0200 Message-ID: <83mx006luf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83d30y87yi.fsf@gnu.org> <83626q7zvk.fsf@gnu.org> <87y5jl243r.fsf@gmail.com> <87pq4xbqup.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87d30xatgo.fsf@wanadoo.es> <20121006041754.GA30224@hysteria.proulx.com> <86lifkm3t1.fsf@hotmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349512503 30945 80.91.229.3 (6 Oct 2012 08:35:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 08:35:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 06 10:35:09 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TKPql-0006MW-Ai for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 10:35:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53387 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKPqf-0005BB-CO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 04:35:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45826) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKPqZ-000594-Rq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 04:34:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKPqY-00076v-1B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 04:34:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:58131) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKPqX-00076H-Ot for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 04:34:53 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MBG00C00QCWM800@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 10:33:57 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MBG00CWTQGJDM30@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 10:33:55 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <86lifkm3t1.fsf@hotmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:87107 Archived-At: > From: Vagn Johansen > Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 09:56:42 +0200 > > Is the TAGS format extensible so a new fields could be added? You'd need to update the etags program for that, and also the Lisp commands that access TAGS and operate on it. > It would useful if the identifiers were tagged (pun intended) with the > the "type": class, method, static function, constant etc. > > For example find-tag could then support a customized > find-first/find-next order (eg. class first). > > You could also use it to make the function guess-class-name-at-point. I > have previously needed this for my tempo expansions for C++ member > functions. If you are talking about C++, Emacs already comes with a program called 'ebrowse' and a matching set of Emacs commands, which I think are supposed to support all that already. I suggest to read the ebrowse manual (bundled with Emacs) and see if you can put that to good use.