Re: Working with different projects in Emacs

[Vagn Johansen <gonz808@hotmail.com>]

rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> Tried it.  Well getting a basic list of directories is working. Nice!
> tags is not working
> vps-make-tags gives me
> etags unknown option --members

"--members" is a valid option for the etags program that comes with
Emacs.

   http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs/etags.1.html

You have probably installed Excuberant tags. It (usually) installs a
ctags and an etags binary. So you are likely to have 2 etags programs
in your path.

Try "etags --help" and "ctags --help" to see what you have got.


I suggest you supply your own version of the vps-make-tags function
where you call the etags/ctags with the options you want. Add the
function definition AFTER the (require 'vps)

If you have the Excuberant tags then the following should work

(defun vps-make-tags ()
  (interactive)
  (vps-write-filelist)
  (message "%s: Making tags file" vps-project-name)
  (shell-command (format "etags -L %s -f %s" 
                   (shell-quote-argument (vps-filelist-filename))
                   (shell-quote-argument (vps-tags-filename)))))

-- 
Vagn Johansen