Re: Navigating an enormous code base

[mrf]

Marcus Harnisch writes:

> GNU Global with the ggtags package (https://github.com/leoliu/ggtags) 
> help me wrangle my Project with roughly 10k source files. Global has an 
> option for specifying “nearness” sorting order, taking the starting 
> point of teh query into account. Completion/narrowing interfaces would 
> still present all candidates, but the nearer ones come out first.
>
> I am quite happily using ggtags with Helm in this setup.

I prefer GNU global but also there is other options that have emacs
integration like CTags and CScope:

http://ctags.sourceforge.net/
http://cscope.sourceforge.net/