Re: emac in large projects

[Ken Goldman]

Ask wrote:
> I am a new learner of Emacs. How is it used for large projects. At
> least, how do we find all occurrences of a function, how do we jump to
> definition of a variable or function. There are other tools to do that
> - gid, cscope etc. Can it be done from within the emacs editor
> itself ?

The ...tag function previously described are fine.

Another solution is to run grep within emacs, and then click on a hit or 
step through the hits.  It's not context sensitive like the tags 
feature, but it requires no preprocessing and works for any directory
regardless if the programming language.