On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > It is really annoying when I use emacs TAGS to search for something >> > like "dev_name" and have to go through 12 iterations before I find the >> > function "dev_name". I really do not care about structures that include >> > "dev_name" as one of its fields, and I'm sure pretty much all other >> > developers do not care either. >> >> While I'm also annoyed by this (although with vim/tags), I regularly do search >> for struct members, so losing this ability would hurt, too. >> >> Is there a solution, without throwing out the baby with the bath water? >> > > Or perhaps make it only do it for TAGS. vim gives you a list of > locations that you can go to, and even marks if it is a member of a > structure or a function or whatever. With emacs, you have to iterate > over each location. That is, with my devname example, I had to hit M^. > then Ctrl^U M^. another 12 times before I got to the function name. > It makes it absolutely worthless, that after two or three misses, I > give up and just grep for it. Thanks! Now I have to look into my vim setup, why it doesn't do the above... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html