Re: unifying emacs "go to definition" functionality

[Jambunathan K]

Jambunathan K <address@hidden> writes:

> Look at the "search results buffer" as a single-window controlling
> dashboard for making sense of huge code bases.

Look at the "search results buffer" as a single-window
controlling-dashboard for making sense of huge code bases.

I have used Emacs-with-Cscope extensively at work.  Cscope is the
"search/results provider" and Emacs is the "results displayer and
navigator".  Define lisp-based data interchange format (Remember it is a
lisp-based interface) and some command primitives between Emacs and
cscope/etags/semantic/what-have-you.

I usually don't jump to definition but usually do lookup refernces.  In
large commercial code bases - I am primarily a C programmer - calls are
dispatched via function pointers and lookup references offer
completeness that "go to definition" cannot.

ps: The current compiler-regexp interfaces of rgrep etc is text-based as
opposed to being lisp-based.