Re: Noob Needs Help with TAGS

[Chris Van Dusen]

On Apr 18, 2012, at 8:15 PM, Cyberclops wrote:

> 
> I am an extreme noob when it comes to emacs.  I was getting tired of the lag
> of using remote desktop to use my gui editor of choice ... SlickEdit.  So
> now I am using ssh and running emacs.
> 
> One of the great things that Slick edit did was tagging.  You could put your
> cursor on an item and hit Ctrl-. to go to it's definition.  If there were
> multiple possible definitions it would pop up a window with all of the
> possibilities and let you chose.  It would also remember where you navigated
> from and a simple Ctrl-, would take you back.
> 
> SlickEdit would also automatically update your tagfile when you changed a
> file and the latest version would even do this retagging in the background.
> 
> I am trying to get tagging working for me in emacs.  I am using exuberent
> ctags.  I know that the M-. command takes me to the definition.  However,
> since I am working on an Android tree there is a multilevel directory
> structure and every time I want to use the tags I have to specify the
> directory its in.
> 
> Is there a way to invoke emacs indicating the path to TAGS so that I don't
> have to specify it every time.
> 
> Also, is there a way to be able to navigate back after using M-.  and to
> have the TAGS updated when you save a file.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Lowell Dennis
> --

One approach is described here:

http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/01/navigating-through-source-code-using.html

hth,
Chris.