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

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 10:14:46 +0100
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.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.

I don't think there's a single emacs users that would not like this
change.

Thus, I'll make it for emacs only, and I think that will be a good
compromise.

-- Steve