Re: emac in large projects

[Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>]

"Ask" <ask.q@indiatimes.com> writes:
> 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 ?

There are add-on IDE's.

For example, have a look at http://cedet.sourceforge.net  for C/C++ development,
or at http://common-lisp.net/project/slime for Common Lisp development.


For the specific feature you ask, you can build a TAGS file for your
project, scanning all the source and header files with the etags
command, and using the find-tag command (M-.) to find definitions, etc.

For example, I put this target in my Makefile:

etags tags:
	find $$(pwd) \( -name \*.lisp \
					-o -name \*.[hc] \
					-o -name \*.hh -o -name \*.cc \
				\) -print | etags -

M-x tags-reset-tags-table RET
M-x compile RET tags RET

Then I type the name of a function and M-.
it asks for confirmation of the name of the function,
and for the path to the TAGS file built by make tags above, (the first
time after a tags-reset-tags-table), and the goes to the definition.


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