[plug] trying to use emacs "tags" facility

[Russell Steicke]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:28:25PM +0800, David Buddrige wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> I am told that there is a facility within emacs to define "tags".  My 
> understanding of this facility is that it allows you to automatically 
> navigate to the definition of a given class/function when going through 
> C/C++ source code. 

Press M-. (Alt-dot on most keyboards).  If that doesn't work, try Escape
dot.  You'll get asked for a symbol name, defaulting to the symbol at
point, then the name of a tags table, defaulting to TAGS in the current
directory.  You can probably do more with tags, but that's all I've ever
needed.



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Russell Steicke

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