[CALUG] eclipse and C on Fedora

Jim Bauer jfbauer at comcast.net
Mon Nov 8 17:23:11 EST 2010


On 11/08/2010 12:54 PM, Jim Sansing wrote:
> However, there are some things that (AFAIK) GUIs can do that terminal
> editors can't.  For example, when a compile has errors, being able to
> click on a compile error message and go straight to the flagged line in
> the source.  (If anyone tells me that this is a _simple_ matter of using
> ctags, then I demand you give a CALUG presentation on how to use ctags
> to do this and all the other wonderful things that ctags claim to
> provide!  Otherwise, I will continue to believe that ctags are a waste
> of time and resources.)

emacs/xemacs can do this (commands: compile and next-error).  And if you 
are thinking that is GUI, run "unset DISPLAY" before running emacs or 
xemacs.  No ctags/etags required.





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