I use imenu as well for looking within a current file. Speedbar was kind of
cool, but it does not support the capabilities that I mentioned...i would
have to use tags externally..

I think that I'll give your etags method a chance. Would still have to do
this for every sub-directory or does your 'find' method do this recursively?

Has anyone ever tried to make something like I was originally looking for? I
think that it would most naturally fit into ecb...instead of running the
tags externally, build in the feature to ecb.

Thanks.

--
Javier


"Kai Großjohann" <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:844r146ock.fsf@slowfox.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de...
> "Javier Oviedo" <email_joviedo@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > Is there some utility that will let me automatically create this kind of
> > tag/project system given some path? Ideally it would support the
following
> > functionality:
> >
> > 1. Given a root dir, it would add all sub-directories(and files within)
to
> > this project.
> > 2. It would auto-update tags tables when/if a file is modified.
> >
> > I'm not sure if this is asking too much, but please let me know if there
is
> > anything that performs some or all of these features. Thanks in advance!
>
> I think you have to do it manually, but make is your friend.
>
>     rm TAGS; touch TAGS
>     find . -name '*.[hc]' -print | xargs etags -a
>
> These commands add all *.h and *.c files to the TAGS file.  You need
> to rerun them whenever something big has changed.  So you could just
> add these commands to your normal build process, for instance.  After
> all, if something big has changed, you're going to build the program
> anyway to check if it still works...
>
> Note that small modifications are not a problem -- M-. is smart
> enough to look around if the position information in TAGS is slightly
> off.
>
> You might also like the Emacs Code Browser and the Semantic
> Bovinator.  The latter has some code parsers which give you tags-like
> functionality, and the former provides a GUI.
>
> Also, see M-x speedbar RET and also M-x imenu RET.  I use M-x imenu
> RET a lot to jump around in the same file.
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