RE: help needed setting up etags on Windows

[Ludwig, Mark]

I hope you will share your results/decision at some point.

I've used etags for decades but have been doing only C coding.  
I'm on the cusp of switching to a C++ project, and etags just doesn't cut it.  
I'll be interested in what you find with Ebrowse.  
I've also seen chatter about CEDET being good for C++.

Cheers,
Mark Ludwig

-----Original Message-----
From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+ludwig.mark=siemens.com@gnu.org 
[mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+ludwig.mark=siemens.com@gnu.org] On Behalf Of C 
K Kashyap
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:25 PM
To: Hongxu Chen
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: help needed setting up etags on Windows

I am going to give cscope (infact, I forgot, I always used cscope with vim
:) )
I'll readup on ebrowse as well ....

Thank you very much,
Kashyap


On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Hongxu Chen <leftcopy.chx@gmail.com> wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:59:09 +0530
> >> From: C K Kashyap <ckkashyap@gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Could someone please help me get started with setting up etags for a
> large
> >> C++ source base? I'd like to use emacs on cygwin. I assume etags is the
> >> right tool for source indexing with emacs.
> >
> > For C++, you will be better off with ebrowse, a program that also
> > comes with Emacs.  It understands C++ much better than etags does, and
> > provides similar commands (so you don't lose anything).  Check out the
> > Ebrowse manual, which is part of the Emacs distribution, for details.
>
> I guess cscope would be better, and there is an elisp script called
> xcscope.el.
> http://cscope.sourceforge.net/
> http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs186/fa05/debugging/xcscope.el
>
> But it sucks when you need to modify some of your source code since the
> update of cscope database always takes much time(AFAIK, there is no
> incremental update at all); so it would be rather annoying if the code
> base is large and there is a need to update the tag database
> frequently.
> There is another tagging system called GNU Global, however
> it seems not available in cygwin.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Hongxu Chen
>
>