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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 'find use of' a symbol
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:06:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ubpwzx438.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a7ab3712-f817-49d8-90c1-261ce135b8bf@z6g2000pre.googlegroups.com>

> From: Xah <xahlee@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:39:28 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> do you want to find all locations where the symbol appears, or where
> the symbol is called, or including where it is defined?
> 
> i suppose you just want all locations where it appears. Besides “Alt+x
> grep”, which i use, a better solution is probably tags.

Tags only finds the location where a symbol is defined.  To find ALL
locations, ID Utils + the gid command is the way to go.





  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-01  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.2584.1225471551.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-31 18:46 ` 'find use of' a symbol Lowell Gilbert
2008-10-31 22:39   ` Xah
2008-11-01  8:06     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-11-01 12:11 ` harven
2008-10-31 16:45 Rodrigo Canellas
2008-10-31 17:32 ` Paul R

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