[Baypiggies] newbie nugget

[Shannon -jj Behrens]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Benjamin Sergeant <bsergean at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe there's a fancier way to do that, but that works for me (tested with a
> jump to a function).
> With vim:
> :cd your_project_root
> :!ctags -R .
> :set tags=tags
> Ctrl ] will jump to the "word under the cursor" definition.
> I think it's alt-d in emacs.
> The problem is updating the tags file. I sometimes add a Makefile rule to a
> Makefile that sits in my project root folder. You can probably do something
> fancy with an event system (inotify or kqueue ?) to monitor files save and
> do the updating automatically.

Perfect.  Thanks!

By the way, I've been having a field day writing about which editors
and IDEs are best for which tasks.  Check out:

http://jjinux.blogspot.com/2008/12/software-engineering-right-editor-for.html
http://jjinux.blogspot.com/2008/12/editors-i-dig-komodo-edit.html
http://jjinux.blogspot.com/2008/12/emacs-nxhtml.html

I'm not trying to start an editor war.  Rather the opposite.  I'm
trying to figure out which editors are better for which tasks because
of certain features and design choices.

-jj

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