Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs

[Kim F. Storm]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> On 15 May 2002 address@hidden wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> > I place the cursor on the name of the function and enters M-x match
> > (I've bound it to H-m).
> 
> Isn't this a job for ID-utils (which have an Emacs interface)?  Once 
> you've created the ID database by running mkid, the searches are 
> lightning-fast and very accurate (because mkid knows about tokens in 
> various programming languages including C).

Yes, ID-utils is a great package, and I would love to see it come
standard with emacs!

But even when I use ID-utils, I often find I fall back to using M-x match.

> 
> Perhaps we should make the ID-utils interface part of Emacs, and expand 
> it to present a menu of possibilities.

Good idea.  And do the same for etags (I already have code
for this, but unfortunately using a different tags program)!

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk