From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: brian.auld@adic.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Best way to get a cross-reference listing... Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 07:38:45 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <995FF289C9D69747A09E42992644595405B2370F@penguin.adic.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051023237 10187 80.91.224.249 (22 Apr 2003 14:53:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 14:53:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 22 16:53:56 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 197z9C-0002ak-00 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:53:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 197z6S-0003tP-09 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:50:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 197z0i-0002FH-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:44:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 197z0A-00024B-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:44:06 -0400 Original-Received: from outgoingmail.adic.com ([63.81.117.28] helo=penguin.adic.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 197yyM-0001Bm-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:42:14 -0400 Original-Received: by penguin.adic.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 07:38:46 -0700 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:8681 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8681 Howdy, I've made the push the past week, and feel that I've gotten over the initial emacs hump, and now feel comfortable sticking with it. I was coming from an intermediate vi and vslick background. A couple questions on things I haven't figured out how to do well. (1) Cross-referencing --------------------- I'm focussed on the linux kernel tree, mostly drivers. If I want to see all cross-references to a C symbol, so far I've found that M-x grep-find works the best. The problem is that I can't control what window the 'grep-find' results are displayed in. I usually have multiple windows open at one time, and want to display the result in a specific window. If I go to that window, and then enter the M-x grep-find command, the results are displayed in another window ... usually one that I don't want to be overwritten. I can always move buffer contents around later, but it's a pain. Does anyone have any suggestions on (a) how to target a window with M-x grep-find, or an alternate way to cross-reference a code tree. (2) etags --------- I find if I try to etag the entire linux kernel tree using for example: find . -name "*.[chCH]" | xargs etags -o kernel-tags the tags never seem to be complete. What I end up doing is running something similar to the above for a bunch of sub-trees within the kernel that are of interest to me. Does anyone know why the above command doesn't seem to work for the entire kernel tree? Am I using the wrong command? Is there a different way to get a complete tags file? Thanks, -- Brian