From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Loading large/multiple tags files Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:28:59 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <5db859a0810201017w7f66df4fl723c47c827a02fd@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224625299 11036 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2008 21:41:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:41:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 21 23:42:39 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KsOzg-0004gc-0k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:42:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38759 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KsOya-0007LH-ES for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:41:16 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!v16g2000prc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.185.159 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1224624539 12970 127.0.0.1 (21 Oct 2008 21:28:59 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:28:59 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v16g2000prc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.185.159; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163669 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59009 Archived-At: On Oct 20, 11:45 pm, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From:Xah > > Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:10:47 -0700 (PDT) > > > does many people use this tags? > > How else do you jump to a definition of a function, macro, typedef, > class, etc., with a single command? > > I really don't understand how can a fairly large project be developed > without TAGS. > > (Another necessary component of any reasonable Emacs-based IDE is > ID-Utils and its Emacs interface "M-x gid".) I've always just used grep when i developed on large projects. (from 1998-2002, with project code base of few hundred or thousand files. Perl as app server, with most code. Others are sh, java, many config files etc. There were about 6 developers. The lead developer is a emacs user, but he only use it for text editing. e.g. he launches emacs by =E2=80=9Cemacs filename=E2=80=9D then qu= it emacs when done. He doesn't know or have much interest about info, dired, shell in emacs, etc any other emacs features. The other developers are mostly vi users mostly because that's what they learned in school in India, and programing is just their day job. They who wouldn't know and have no interest in what's a algorithm or Turing machine or lisp or computer languages if you press them. (seems sad, but that's how most professional IT workers are like. See: The Condition of Industrial Programers http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/it_programers.html ) ) i'm pretty sure grep is inefficient... thanks for the pointers, i'll look into tags next time. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84