Thanks to everyone who wrote me with ideas - sounds like Paul's will
work the best for now.
aaron
At Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:09:47 -0500,
Paul Kinnucan wrote:
>
> Curtis Clifton writes:
> > Aaron,
> >
> > I use grep in emacs for this purpose. In your example I would do a M-x grep,
> > then grep -n -e 'create(' *.java
> >
> > This will display a buffer showing all the lines containing the string
> > 'create('. Clicking on lines in that buffer will jump to the particular line in
> > the source code.
> >
>
> I use JDE->Find->Expression to search for an expression everwhere in
> the JDE source path (jde-db-source-directories). This displays all the
> hits as hyperlinks in a popup buffer. Clicking on any hyperlink takes
> you to the source of the hit. This command assumes that you have the
> Unix utilities grep and find installed on your system. The Cygwin Unix
> emulation package for Windows, which I use, includes both
> utilities. Since Windows also includes an incompatible function named
> find, I make sure that the Cygwin bin directory is ahead of the
> Windows system directory so that Emacs will find and use the Unix
> version.
>
> - Paul
>
>
