GNU's Source Code Tagging System.
GNU's Source Code Tagging System. The official website for GNU Global is: https://www.gnu.org/software/global/
Questions tagged [gnu-global]
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Tags for Emacs: Relationship between etags, ebrowse, cscope, GNU Global and exuberant ctags
I work on C++ projects, and I went through Alex Ott's guide to CEDET and other threads about tags in StackOverflow, but I am still confused about how Emacs interfaces with these different tag systems to facilitate autocompletion, the looking up of…
Amelio Vazquez-Reina
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How to add Python plug-in to Gnu Global
my gtags verion is gtags - GNU GLOBAL 5.9.2
I downloaded a python plug-in for Gnu Global here
copy the globalrc.example to ~/.globalrc
copy the script/python_global_tags.py to ~/bin/python_global_tags.py which is in my $PATH
type: "gtags" in a…
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How to make emacs Semantic use the TAG file generated by GTAGS
My emacs version is 23.2.1
Although I used the following to change the backend to use GTAGS.
(require 'semantic/db-global)
(semanticdb-enable-gnu-global-databases 'c-mode)
(semanticdb-enable-gnu-global-databases 'c++-mode)
I tried to generate a…
Tommy Huang
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How do I install GNU Global with universal ctags support using Homebrew?
According to the GNU Global documentation
# Installation of GLOBAL
# It assumed that ctags command is installed in '/usr/local/bin'.
$ ./configure --with-universal-ctags=/usr/local/bin/ctags
$ make
$ sudo make install
I need to install GNU Global…
greyowl
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GNU Global and GTAGS can't find class definitions
I'm having trouble getting global to find class/struct definitions.
I can find them with exuberant ctags and with cscope.
All tag files are built from the same source file list.
I configured and built global, et.al., only specifying…
Outis Von Nemo
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Can gtags navigate back?
I use vim with gtags plug in to read code through multiple files. Everything is okay except that I donnot know how to navigate back to the previous position before I run :CtagsCursor to jump to the token definition. I read through the GNU global…
Pan Ruochen
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setting up emacs autcomplete with gtags
I've been struggling with getting tags to work with auto-complete mode for quite a while now, and it seems like my attempts have been futile.
I have two questions:
How can I tell if auto-complete mode is working with gtags?
How do I setup gtags to…
foboi1122
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How to use gtags -v to create index but skipping some subdirectories
I am trying to run 'gtags -v' to build index for my large code base.
from this link:
Emacs as an IDE for large C++ projects
My question is how can I tell gtags to skip walk into some directories (not necessary top level) "e.g. 'out', '.git',…
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How to make magit pull to have rebase option by default?
I recently started using magit package in emacs and its really useful and handy. I would like to make couple of tweaks.
How do I make magit pull to be always have rebase option?. Currently it shows up switches and I have to choose -r --rebase. In…
sudurais
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On emacs, I can't jump to tags in GTAGS SELECT buffer
On emacs, I can't jump to tags in GTAGS SELECT buffer. I get "Buffer is read-only: " error when I press return.
Mac OS X 10.8.1
Emacs 24.2
gtags GNU GLOBAL 6.2.4 (installed by homebrew)
gtags.el 3.3 (installed by…
wataradio
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How to let the gtags support const definition search with emacs
i use emacs for a long time, and also i use cscope for my code navigation, now i changed to global gtags, it is much advantage, like it is very fast, very precise to find the definition of a function, but i found it cannot find variable which…
denny
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search class member function using GNU Global
How to search member function of a class using GNU Global?
For example, there're two classes
class A{
func();
...};
class B{
func();
...}
If I search func, both A::func and B::func appears. If I search "A::func", nothing is returned.
Yao Jin
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Differences between several vim tags plugin
I have two questions actually.
First, as far as I know, there are two tags tools:
Ctags
GNU Global a.k.a. gtags
I'm wondering which one is more suitable if my daily works are concentrated on Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and Python. Namely, dynamic…
lazywei
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how to set folder path for gtags
I am new to gtags, and have a question. I have a big project, such as android AOSP, I want gtags to parse some folders, how can I achieve it with gtags? I searched and got solution:
use -f option with gtags, it seems doesn't support folders
Is…
thisEric
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Using gtags for gtk headers and my own project
I have a gtk project and I want to use gtags for my project. I also would like to use gtags for the external libraries, in my case gtk. I tried:
find /usr/include/gtk-2.0 -name "*.h" > gtk_headers
gtags -f gtk_headers
Unfortunately, I get a…
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