From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: cajzell@hotmail.com (Caj Zell) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Program development questions Date: 1 Sep 2002 15:03:55 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030918477 14882 127.0.0.1 (1 Sep 2002 22:14:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 22:14:37 +0000 (UTC) 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 17lczK-0003rT-00 for ; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 00:14:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17ld0m-0007lu-00; Sun, 01 Sep 2002 18:16:04 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.151.49.234 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1030917835 13294 127.0.0.1 (1 Sep 2002 22:03:55 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Sep 2002 22:03:55 GMT Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:104385 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:951 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:951 Hi, I want to ask three (probably simple) questions in connections with c programming in emacs. (I have tried to find answers in faq's, etc.) 1. I have a Makefile in a top directory and under it other directories, where one is a source directory in which I am often editing files. When I want to compile the software, I want to run the mentioned Makefile in the above directory from emacs, but the "current directory" has no Makefile so I get "no target with so-and-so name". Is there a simple way of letting emacs know it should compile like from the above directory. 2. Running etags and then M-., I come to the definition of a function, variable, etc. But, if I want to find several other places where the specific function is called, and not just the definition, how can I do that? 3. Is there a general consensus as to which package to use for code browsing under emacs? Is "ecb" the most used? Caj Zell