As a follow up to the last post, I tried emacs+gtags and it is really powerful when compared to emacs+etags.
Important things to get started.
First run gtags on the code.
This would create four files
Open emacs and enable gtags
To enable auto completion of function names\symbols etc use,
NOTE: This is deprecated and not required now.
To locate a function use,
You can also use
If more than one is found a stack is returned. Select one and hit RET. In order to get the stack use,
You can also use
To find a symbol use,
To find anything use,
Once you modify the code, just update the code
To visit the tags folder use,
Important things to get started.
First run gtags on the code.
$ gtags This would create four files
GPATH, GRTAGS, GSYMS, GTAGSOpen emacs and enable gtags
M-x gtags-mode RETTo enable auto completion of function names\symbols etc use,
M-x gtags-make-complete-listNOTE: This is deprecated and not required now.
To locate a function use,
M-x gtags-find-tag function_name.You can also use
M-. If more than one is found a stack is returned. Select one and hit RET. In order to get the stack use,
M-x gtags-pop-stack.You can also use
M-*To find a symbol use,
M-x gtags-find-symbol m_myVar To find anything use,
M-x gtags-find-with-grep "gtags rules" Once you modify the code, just update the code
global -u -v To visit the tags folder use,
M-x gtags-visit-rootdir and point it to the folder that has the TAGS!
2 comments:
I was looking at gtags and your link came up towards the top on google :). Thanks for the helpful article, just wish it was for vim instead ;)
-Ravi
Lol .. Glad to know the blog works :-)
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