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Re: Source code navigation in emacs


From: Dirk-Jan C . Binnema
Subject: Re: Source code navigation in emacs
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:29:03 +0300
User-agent: Wanderlust/2.15.6 (Almost Unreal) Emacs/23.0 Mule/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO)

Hi,

>>>>> "n179911" == n179911  <n179911@gmail.com> writes:

 
    >>> Can someone please recommend what is the way to setup code navigation
    >>> in emacs?  I have setup xcope.el with cscope run in emacs.
    >>> 
    >>> But I read here, it said some thing about gnu global with emacs?
    >>> 
http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/01/navigating-through-source-code-using.html
   
 
    >> The most generic way is to just use a tags table, see the manual:

    >> etags supports more languages than gnu global, and there is an
    >> etags program coming with exuberant-ctags that supports even
    >> more. There are alternative, more capable solutions for specific
    >> programming languages. What are you working with?

Anselm, is there any reason to prefer etags over GNU-Global for C/C++? I am
quite happy with GNU-Global (I actually wrote the above blogpost) -- in what
way would etags be better? 

Best wishes,
Dirk.

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Dirk-Jan C. Binnema                  Helsinki, Finland
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