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?
Brad
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