Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de> writes:
Hi Alex, > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 01:38:56PM +0100, Alexander Burger wrote: >> I think that the necessary tags are already there, or can be easily > I'm assuming that emacs can use the 'vi' tag file format. Am I wrong? I'm afraid not, I used ,--------------------------------------------- | M-. | (find-tag tagname &optional next-p regexp-p) `--------------------------------------------- on 'while' in a picolisp source-file in @/src64. and got the following message: ,----------------------------------------------------------------- | visit-tags-table-buffer: | File /home/tj1/bin/picoLisp/src64/tags is not a valid tags table `----------------------------------------------------------------- Is that ctags or etags or something else what 'vi' uses? ,------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | *emacs-tags* *emacs_tags* *E430* | Emacs style tag files are only supported if Vim was compiled with the | |+emacs_tags| feature enabled. Sorry, there is no explanation about Emacs tag | files here, it is only supported for backwards compatibility :-). | | Lines in Emacs tags files can be very long. Vim only deals with lines of up | to about 510 bytes. To see whether lines are ignored set 'verbose' to 5 or | higher. | | http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/tagsrch.html `------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If 'vi' uses (exuberant) ctags, it seems you could produce an etags TAGS file for emacs by simply running 'ctags -e'. ,------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Despite the wealth of available options, defaults are set so that ctags | | is most commonly executed without any options (e.g. "ctags *", or "ctags | | −R"), which will create a tag file in the current directory for all | | recognized source files. The options described below are provided merely | | to allow custom tailoring to meet special needs. | | | | −e | | | | Enable etags mode, which will create a tag file for use with the Emacs | | editor. Alternatively, if ctags is invoked by a name containing the | | string "etags" (either by renaming, or creating a link to, the | | executable), etags mode will be enabled. This option must appear before | | the first file name. | | http://ctags.sourceforge.net/ctags.html#HOW%20TO%20USE%20WITH%20GNU%20EMACS | | | `------------------------------------------------------------------------- cheers -- Thorsten -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
