Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:37:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Search a symbol in the source tree Message-ID: <19991013093741.S78191@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991012102820.6979B-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991012102820.6979B-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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On Tuesday, 12 October 1999 at 10:32:00 -0400, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > Can anyone suggest me a way of searching symbols in the entire /usr/src > tree? I normally use grep */*. But grep does not work recursively, right? > Something like a small shell script may do this. Thanks a lot. I use etags for this, in conjunction with Emacs. Like that, I can position the cursor on a word, press Alt-., and it will find the definition for me. It will also search for all occurrences with Alt-S. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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