Re: browsing kernel source with emacs

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Are you generating the tags every time you search for it?
See the man page to just build the cscope database.

And try to search for tags/symbols without rebuilding the database.

Not sure if this is what you seek, but this may help.

thanks
On 9/1/07, Pawel K <pawlaczus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello
> How can I force emacs to show the list of tags to jump
> to in case there are more than one symbol of a
> specific name.
>
> I tried the following tools but they don't work good
> enough for me:
>
> 1. exuberant-ctags and etags with conjunction with
> etags-select.
> It works very slow. It would take more than 10 seconds
> to show the tags choice list on Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
>
> 2. cscope in emacs is faster but it is very slow as
> well. It takes about 3 seconds to generate the tags
> choice list  (Pentium 4 2.4 GHz)
>
> I'm aware of other tools: ecb, imenu, ebrowse etc. It
> takes me to much time to check all of them.
>
> I believe emacs is a very powerful editor and many
> kernel developers use it and surely they don't spent a
> few seconds every time they want to jump to the
> function definition.
>
> I tried vim with exuberant-ctags on the same machine.
> It is awesome. It generates tags list at once (in 0.1
> seconds).
>
> Please tell me if there are any other tools that can
> do that as quickly as vim.
>
> Thank You for help
>
>
>
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