From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2002-09-13T06:59:07+09:00
Subject: Re: IDE vs. editor

On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 06:41:14AM +0900, Syver Enstad wrote:
> Massimiliano Mirra <list@NOSPAMchromatic-harp.com> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 02:44:06AM +0900,
> > bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Aug.18.02@telemark.stanford.edu wrote:
> > 
> > > >> - - I can do all this in Emacs and have a powerful editor. Is it
> > > >Same questions to you: how do you have a method's renaming
> > propagate,
> > 
> > > - - You need a ruby version of etags. Then it's just a simple
> > >   matter of using tags-query-replace. The hard bit is a ruby
> > >   version of etags. 
> > 
> > I heard about etags supporting ruby, but never managed to get it work,
> > 
> > probably because I never used etags with any other language and I
> > don't know how it is supposed to work when it does.  Sounds like it's
> > time for another try.
> 
> You roll your own ruby support if your etags doesn't have it (I am
> using emacs 21.2.1 and the version of etags supplied doesn't have it).
>
...< roll your own stuff deleted>

No need to roll your own, you can use exuberant ctags which has
support for ruby in etags format. I believe it supports Python too.

http://ctags.sf.net

I've been happily using it for many languages for years now.

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Alan Chen
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