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I think "ctags" is the wrong program. (I'm not sure what it's for; I suspect it's obsolete).

Emacs should have come with a program called "etags"; use that instead.

offby1 2010-05-07 06:22:13

yep, after a lot of reading I think I am using the wrong one, I should be using Exuberant Ctags, and not the original Ctags. let me try and let you know. thanks :-) !

Gollum 2010-05-07 06:49:53

for C/C++ I think, that gtags from GNU Global package is better (you also need to load gtags.el)

Alex Ott 2010-05-07 06:56:23

ctags is etags for vi

Peter Miehle 2010-05-07 08:20:09

Thanks @Peter !RT@Alex - I did not know about gtags, will take a look, thanks a lot.

Gollum 2010-05-07 09:16:47

Alex, it looks promising. are you using it, how do you like it?, I am just starting to use Emacs, so with your advice, I will switch to gtags. thanks a lot. let me know.

Gollum 2010-05-07 09:25:28

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Actually, I need to use Exuberant Ctags and not Ctags. I did not know that they were two different products.

So, DO NOT get Ctags from Cygwin's repository, instead go here Exuberant Ctags if you want to use it with Emacs. Ctags does not work with Emacs.

Gollum 2010-05-07 09:07:31

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I wrote a blog post on using etags with emacs that should help

justinhj 2010-05-08 16:20:48

this is cool ! I did it with cygwin. can you add another tag ("Using etags in Emacs with cygwin") for google to bump up this post ? this is really helpful and neat.

Gollum 2010-05-08 23:33:18

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