Re: Coding standards

[Jason Merrill <jason at cygnus dot com>]

>>>>> Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@cygnus.com> writes:

 > OK. Now I'm curious. What are etags, and how do the various formatting 
 > options make a difference? What is a tag file? 

tags are a way of accelerating symbol lookup, like a simple browser.  You
run etags on a group of files and then use M-. in emacs to jump to a symbol
definition, or M-x tags-search to do a grep on all the files listed in the
tags file.  I use these all the time.  See the TAGS rules in various
Makefiles.

I think vi also supports tags, but I don't know how.

Jason