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

[Thierry Volpiatto]

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

> Sebastian Schubert <schubert.seb@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently started to work an large project which is written in
>> Fortran90.  It includes a lot of different source files included in just
>> one folder.  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.
>>
>> In addition a list of variables would be nice too.
>>
>> Any idea?
>
>
>
> 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 {}

NOTE:
If you use traverslisp.el, you can build a TAGS file easily from the
root of project with `traverse-build-tags-in-project'

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

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