Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs

[Andreas Schwab]

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> writes:

|> > I'm visiting  ~/fsf/emacs/lwlib/xlwmenu.c
|> > On line 1625, there is a call to the function x_free_dpy_colors.
|> > I want find out where it is defined & used elsewhere.
|> 
|> Note that apart from M-x grep and M-x match there's also M-x igrep that
|> tries to solve the same kind of problem(s).
|> 
|> > I find this very easy to use; compare:
|> >         M-x match RET RET RET M-DEL RET
|> > to using e.g
|> >         M-x grep-find RET x_free_dpy_colors RET
|> 
|> I personally use
|> 
|>      C-u M-x grep RET <edit things to look like ../**/*.[ch]> RET

Another easy interface is M-x tags-search if you already have a TAGS file.

Andreas.

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