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Re: Source code navigation in emacs
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n179911 |
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Re: Source code navigation in emacs |
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Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:53:31 -0700 |
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Dirk-Jan C. Binnema<djcb.bulk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>>>>>> "n179911" == n179911 <n179911@gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> >>> 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
>
>
> >> The most generic way is to just use a tags table, see the manual:
>
> >> 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?
>
> Anselm, is there any reason to prefer etags over GNU-Global for C/C++? I am
> quite happy with GNU-Global (I actually wrote the above blogpost) -- in what
> way would etags be better?
>
And can you please help me understand why GNU-Global is better than
xcope.el + cscope for emacs?
> Best wishes,
> Dirk.
>
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