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Re: Coding standards
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- Subject: Re: Coding standards
- From: Theodore Papadopoulo <Theodore dot Papadopoulo at sophia dot inria dot fr>
- Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 19:56:09 +0100
> > OK. Now I'm curious. What are etags, and how do the various formatting; charset=us-ascii
> > 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.
It's very similar to what uses emcas but I think the tag file has a
different syntax.
The program is called ctags. To jump just type Ctrl-].
Theo.
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