Re: Managing lots of source files (e.g. subroutines and functions)

[Sebastian Schubert <schubert.seb@googlemail.com>]

pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:

>> Is there a way to make emacs scan this folder and create some kind of
>> procedure or subroutine or function list? I would like to be able to
>> directly move to the file where e.g. the function I'm interested in
>> is written.

> The basic feature can be provided by etag(1)
>
> First, you build a TAGS file:
>
> find $source_directory -name \*.f -print0 | xargs -0 etags -a -o $source_directory/TAGS {}
>
> then you can use it for example, by typing M-. on a function name.
> The first time it'll ask what TAGS file you want (specify the one you
> just created).  Then it will jump to the source of the function.

That's what I wanted to have.  Thank you.

> Otherwise, you could use cedet (http://cedet.sourceforge.net) but it
> seems there's no Fortran parser yet.  You could write one.

I'll give it a try although I felt too stupid to use it the last time I
tried it.  I never understood what was going on... ;)

Cheers

Sebastian