From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs as C IDE Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:54:51 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224682850 11613 80.91.229.12 (22 Oct 2008 13:40:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:40:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 22 15:41:48 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 1Ksdy8-0006zn-7p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:41:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42005 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ksdx2-0000cz-NP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:40:40 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news.eternal-september.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX19YTQOkX0DoMX73Np5eoAyUgEBuCQRZ8/UrqRufprODCH7y58baaY8bMFkJ84prD4CPXkxDbdLOhs6ikKkCbB3yb7Xi6PvzkZqQjc9A8oOcrW4S7GNdTECdK59aiVehr4nZrfBWjkqPEXn+73cA//Ot Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:54:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1/KvEp1rJ2bHuSVZs2bq526W0YbE6MM4ZUdTlfYOUsG9w== Cancel-Lock: sha1:uCjYKWMsoFG686ft8lNo4JqCnl0= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163690 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:59036 Archived-At: "Lorenzo Isella" writes: > Dear All, > I am working on a fairly large (for my standards) C project. I have to > browse different .c and .h files and sometimes I feel lost. It would > be wonderful, when looking at a single file, being able to "visualize" > (maybe in a different window) its skeleton: structures, functions > etc... or to collapse them in the view of the original file. > I have not found what I am looking for, but I cannot believe that > nobody has ever taken steps in this direction. > I should add I am using cc-mode right now, > Many thanks > > Lorenzo > As well as tags and cscope you should look at xref. Far and away better than anything else out there I think for code navigation with emacs. http://www.xref.sk/xrefactory/main.html The C version is free now. In addition there is ecb and semantic - it can get confusing as to what is what as there are so many options! Unfortunately I think you might be a little disappointed as the features do not compare to things like Visual Studio and Eclipse in my opinion. -- I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. ~John F. Kennedy