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From: raulmill@aludra.usc.edu (Raul)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: C function prototypes and tags
Summary: first things first
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Date: 24 Jun 89 08:18:13 GMT
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vinoski@apollo.COM (Stephen Vinoski) writes:
-> Today I tried to create a tags file for a large C program using
-> 'etags -t' so as to include typedefs in the tags.  The program uses
-> function prototypes throughout.  When I did a 'find-tag' for a
-> typedef name it took me to one of the function prototypes where the
-> typedef was used to specify an argument type, which is less than
-> desirable.

Put your function prototypes in include files.  When you specify your
arguments to etags, make sure that the include files are specified
last.  This way find-tag will locate the function definition before
the function prototype.  You can always use meta-comma to advance on
to the prototype if you really want to see it.
Raul Rockwell                                      |
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