[plug] Re: using etags with emacs

[David Buddrige]

thanks. 8-)  That seems to work a bit better. 

cheers 

David. 

Russell Steicke writes: 

> On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 10:58:49AM +0800, David Buddrige wrote:
> ...
>> Has anyone used the etags command provided with emacs and knows how it 
>> works?  I've been messing around with the emacs version of the program 
>> on-and-off for a while now but haven't been able to make it do anything 
>> useful. 
> 
> It works here.  I'd suggest reading the info for it ("C-h i" in emacs,
> then go to the emacs node, and search for "tags") rather than the man
> page, as the info is more likely to be up to date.  The way to invoke it
> recursively is: 
> 
>   find . -name "*.[chCH]" -print | etags - 
> 
> The only other thing I can suggest is to ensure you are reading the
> right tags table by doing 
> 
>   M-x tags-reset-tags-tables 
> 
> Then it'll ask you for the tags file name the next time you press "M-.". 
> 
> Hmm, sorry this wasn't more help. 
> 
>  
> 
> -- 
> Russell Steicke 
> 
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