At 08:11 AM 4/12/00 -0400, you wrote: >On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 02:53:07PM -0400, Paul Kinnucan wrote: > >> Yes, the primary advantage of tags is that you can jump to the >> definition for a symbol that resides in some other file. Another is >> that you can do so with a simple keystroke combination. >> >> Here at the Mathworks we have a perl script that invokes etags on >> our C and Java source hierarchies package by package. (I have gotten >> around to updating it to use jtags for Java files.) It inserts a >> tags file in package directory. Then it inserts a tags file at the >> top level of the hierarchy that simply references the low-level tags >> files. The advantage for a large source hierarchy like ours is that >> you can distribute your tags database across a bunch of relatively >> small files instead of having one humongous tags file. >> > >Paul, Thats not nice now your just taunting us. Is there any way you >could share those scripts, or is Mathworks claiming them as intellectual >property? Sorry, I am not at liberty to share the scripts. I plan someday to write an elisp equivalent for the JDE. - Paul
