Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Nov 2013 09:27:31 -0500 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scripts: Have make TAGS not include structure members |
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On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 10:14:46 +0100 Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: > > It is really annoying when I use emacs TAGS to search for something > > like "dev_name" and have to go through 12 iterations before I find the > > function "dev_name". I really do not care about structures that include > > "dev_name" as one of its fields, and I'm sure pretty much all other > > developers do not care either. > > While I'm also annoyed by this (although with vim/tags), I regularly do search > for struct members, so losing this ability would hurt, too. > > Is there a solution, without throwing out the baby with the bath water? >
Or perhaps make it only do it for TAGS. vim gives you a list of locations that you can go to, and even marks if it is a member of a structure or a function or whatever. With emacs, you have to iterate over each location. That is, with my devname example, I had to hit M^. then Ctrl^U M^. another 12 times before I got to the function name. It makes it absolutely worthless, that after two or three misses, I give up and just grep for it.
I don't think there's a single emacs users that would not like this change.
Thus, I'll make it for emacs only, and I think that will be a good compromise.
-- Steve
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