From: wsdng@... (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sascha_D=F6rdelmann?=)
Date: 2003-08-07T17:25:06+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question from a smalltalker

Lyle Johnson <lyle@knology.net> wrote in message news:<3F3137F0.4050203@knology.net>...
> Michael Garriss wrote:
> 
> > Although I can't test it in my current enviroment, I believe that ctags 
> > works on ruby too.  Sure it's a bit dumb (ctags) but combined with vim 
> > or emacs it can be quite useful.
> 
> Actually, I can confirm it ;) I use the CodeBrowser (I think that's its 
> name) plugin for JEdit and it uses ctags under the hood to generate the 
> list of classes, methods etc. for the current file. Works pretty well 
> for Ruby, although the method names are not fully-qualified (i.e. no 
> distinction between "A::foo" and "B::foo", both appear as "foo"). Not 
> sure if this latter problem is a defect of ctags or of CodeBrowser's use 
> of the ctags file information.

Doesn't sound like Emacs Code Browser:
  http://ecb.sourceforge.net/
ECB is a very powerful emacs tool. I use it for about a year now and
it definitely doesn't rely on ctags. Its base is another powerful tool
called Semantic Bonivator providing a kind of parse tree and a very
useful interface for lisp programmers. The Java-IDE based on ECB is
called JDEE.

I use ECB in connection with other emacs tools like etags or ctags and
I am very satisfied with it.

Unfortunately there's no Ruby language definition availiable for
Semantic Bonivator:
  http://cedet.sourceforge.net/semantic.shtml


Cheers
Sascha