forgot name of program

[David Gibson]

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 11:51:44AM +1100, Iain wrote:
> * Simon Burton (simonb at webone.com.au) [07 Dec 2002 11:40]:
> 
> > What's the name of that funky little program
> > that builds a DB of symbols/functions etc. in c code?
> > And vim/emacs can read the DB and navigate with special commands.
> > At the moment i'm parsing the output of nm.
> 
> ctags and/or cscope. ctags just notes definitions, cscope is a more
> powerful tool that allows you to navigate to where a function is called,
> defined, show what functions are called by a function, etc. Integrates
> into vim quite nicely. No idea about emacs.

Similar idea for emacs, but use "etags" instead of "ctags".

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