[Pythonmac-SIG] Spotlight and Python

Robert Kern rkern at ucsd.edu
Tue May 10 23:41:27 CEST 2005


Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote:
> On May 10, 2005, at 2:00 PM, Jonathan Wight wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm not sure how useful it is to index function & class names though.
>>
> 
> 
> Oh, I disagree -- I've got over 100K lines of code, and I would  
> *kill* to be able to find everywhere a particular symbol is used.   
> And yes, I know grep -r will do it for me -- but the more ways to  
> sift through data, the better.

*cough* ctags *cough*

http://ctags.sourceforge.net/

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Robert Kern
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