Re: [PATCH] scripts: Have make TAGS not include structure members

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On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:59:07 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 10:14:46 +0100 Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
> 
> metoo.

You're a vim user too. Do I hear any complaints about removing it just
for emacs users?

> 
> > Is there a solution, without throwing out the baby with the bath water?
> 
> Remove the tags for those struct members whose name duplicates some
> other symbol?

For vim, I could write a perl script that could do that.

-- Steve

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