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Re: can gtags be enhanced to find where a symbol is being modified?
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Shigio YAMAGUCHI |
Subject: |
Re: can gtags be enhanced to find where a symbol is being modified? |
Date: |
Sat, 18 Jul 2020 10:57:45 +0900 |
Hello,
> When I use ggtags.el to find all the locations where a particular
> symbol is referenced, I wish it were possible to ask to be shown
> all the places where the symbol is being "modified" (written to.)
Limited to C, gtags-cscope's 'Find assignments to this symbol:'
command may be close to what you want. Please see gtags-cscope(1).
Good luck!
Shigio
2020年7月15日(水) 5:39 Gautam Thaker <ghthaker@gmail.com>:
>
>
> I have been a long time gtags/global/ggtags.el use and love it. When I use
> ggtags.el to find all the locations where a particular symbol is referenced,
> I wish it were possible to ask to be shown all the places where the symbol is
> being "modified" (written to.)
>
>
> Ideally, I wish either GRTAGS (or elsewhere) the following entries can be
> generated:
>
> Symbol Read/Write function file_name line_number
>
>
> we can then, with some simple arg flag (^u for example?) only search for
> symbol where it is being modified, possibly restricting it to just the
> current function an/or current file.
>
> How hard would this be to do? I am willing to do some of the work if guided.
> Also, when I use
>
>
> gtags --sqlite3, the GRTAGS file seems essentially empty. (I have built
> gtags with --with-sqlilte).
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