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

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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdWNh2L56FhDbKfC7TtdHp8=EY2ms_T+=9Xyczz3D-PF=w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 17 Nov 2013 16:19:53 +0100
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	Yang Bai <hamo.by@...il.com>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: Have make TAGS not include structure members

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> 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

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