From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Program development questions Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 16:36:47 +0200 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030978562 29690 127.0.0.1 (2 Sep 2002 14:56:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:56:02 +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 17lscS-0007ik-00 for ; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 16:56:00 +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 17lsdy-0000UK-00; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 10:57:34 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!eusc.inter.net!Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DaEQBHkWRA3hEFMucpg6w56GOAY= Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:104399 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:965 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:965 cajzell@hotmail.com (Caj Zell) writes: > 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. You could set compile-command to something like: cd /top/level/directory && make > 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? M-0 M-. finds further tags. M-x tags-search RET finds places which aren't definitions. > 3. Is there a general consensus as to which package to use for code > browsing under emacs? Is "ecb" the most used? Maybe speedbar is used more often because it comes with Emacs. I haven't used ECB. It might well be better. kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)