Re: IDE versus emacs

[Sohail Somani]

On 19/10/2012 3:55 AM, Steinar Bang wrote:
> > > > > > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
>
> > At least in C and C++, tags never miss a definition for me.  My only
> > problem with tags is that they sometimes show me more definitions
> > other than what I had in mind that match the symbol I type, either
> > because of case insensitivity or because of partial matches.
>
> Can tags filter out those symbols that would match what you're typing,
> but aren't reachable from the point in the code where you are typing?

No. tags is mostly horrible. I can only use it for finding definitions 
and even that, only sometimes. Modern C++ codebases (lots of templates) 
just do not do well with tags.