Re: help needed setting up etags on Windows

[C K Kashyap]

cscope seems to run pretty well - http://linux.die.net/man/1/xcscope is
useful to get started.

Regards,
Kashyap


On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Hongxu Chen <leftcopy.chx@gmail.com> wrote:

> "Ludwig, Mark" <ludwig.mark@siemens.com> writes:
>
> > I hope you will share your results/decision at some point.
> Here are my related configuration links for C/C++ development:
> 1.
> https://github.com/HongxuChen/dotfiles/blob/master/_emacs.d/config/init-cc-mode.el
> General cc mode settings
> 2.
> https://github.com/HongxuChen/dotfiles/blob/master/_emacs.d/config/init-flymake.el
> Add a flymake clang for single files
> 3. auto-complete-clang+yasnippet+autopair for editing assistance
> 4. fic-mode for highlight FIXME/TODO etc.
> 5. source code navigation:
> (1) tag based: xgtags.el and xcscope.el(for header files that I never
> modify since I cscope seems more accurate than xgtags).
> (2) semantic based: cc-lookup(a simple script I write, based on
> clang-lookup; it only looks for declaration/definition, no reference
> support, no name refactoring support, and more improvements are
> expected)
> https://github.com/HongxuChen/cc-lookup
> 6. I also use directory local variables quite a lot
>
> There are also several clang based tools for C/C++ coding:
> 1. https://github.com/Sarcasm/irony-mode
> auto complete headers and code, syntax check; I cannot make the trigger
> key right and there are some bugs for its plugins.
> 2. https://github.com/Golevka/emacs-clang-complete-async
> a client-server version of auto-complete-completion; faster than
> auto-complete-clang but many bugs
> 3. https://github.com/Andersbakken/rtags
> Powerful tag system, there is a series video about it on Youtube, lookup
> defintion/declaration/reference, rename refactoring, code completion;
> but I don't know how to configure right:-(
> 4. company-mode
> It's inferior to auto-complete and I don't use it.
> >
> > I've used etags for decades but have been doing only C coding.
> > I'm on the cusp of switching to a C++ project, and etags just doesn't
> cut it.
> > I'll be interested in what you find with Ebrowse.
> > I've also seen chatter about CEDET being good for C++.
> Personally I don't like CEDET(together with ECB) since it's too Emacsy
> and I come from Vim; the most important thing is that it sucks quite
> often and the speed is not satisfying. But there seems a clang semantics
> analysis on it and I hope it would make a hit.
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mark Ludwig
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+ludwig.mark=siemens.com@gnu.org [mailto:
> help-gnu-emacs-bounces+ludwig.mark=siemens.com@gnu.org] On Behalf Of C K
> Kashyap
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:25 PM
> > To: Hongxu Chen
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > Subject: Re: help needed setting up etags on Windows
> >
> > I am going to give cscope (infact, I forgot, I always used cscope with
> vim
> > :) )
> > I'll readup on ebrowse as well ....
> >
> > Thank you very much,
> > Kashyap
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Hongxu Chen <leftcopy.chx@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >>
> >> >> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:59:09 +0530
> >> >> From: C K Kashyap <ckkashyap@gmail.com>
> >> >>
> >> >> Could someone please help me get started with setting up etags for a
> >> large
> >> >> C++ source base? I'd like to use emacs on cygwin. I assume etags is
> the
> >> >> right tool for source indexing with emacs.
> >> >
> >> > For C++, you will be better off with ebrowse, a program that also
> >> > comes with Emacs.  It understands C++ much better than etags does, and
> >> > provides similar commands (so you don't lose anything).  Check out the
> >> > Ebrowse manual, which is part of the Emacs distribution, for details.
> >>
> >> I guess cscope would be better, and there is an elisp script called
> >> xcscope.el.
> >> http://cscope.sourceforge.net/
> >> http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs186/fa05/debugging/xcscope.el
> >>
> >> But it sucks when you need to modify some of your source code since the
> >> update of cscope database always takes much time(AFAIK, there is no
> >> incremental update at all); so it would be rather annoying if the code
> >> base is large and there is a need to update the tag database
> >> frequently.
> >> There is another tagging system called GNU Global, however
> >> it seems not available in cygwin.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> Hongxu Chen
> >>
> >>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Hongxu Chen
>