Re: Source code navigation in emacs

[n179911]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Anselm
Helbig<anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> wrote:
> At Sun, 5 Jul 2009 22:31:59 -0700,
> n179911 <n179911@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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
>>
>> I would like to know what is the better way?
>
> The most generic way is to just use a tags table, see the manual:
>
>  (info "(emacs) Tags")
>
> (C-x C-e after the closing paren in emacs)
>
> 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?
>

If I build etags, do I still need to use cscope ? with xcope.el in emacs?
I am using c++ and Java.

Thank you.


> HTH,
>
> Anselm
>
>
>
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> Anselm Helbig
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