Re: etags for mfiles?

[Mario Storti]

>>>>> On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 14:25:54 -0600 (CST), 
>>>>>      "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> said:

> On 10-Nov-1998, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> | Sorry if this message is off-topic, but does anyone use tags files for
> | directories of mfiles?  If so, how?

> I don't think it's off topic.  Unfortunately, I also don't know of
> anyone who has modified etags/ctags/?tags to parse Octave .m files.
> If anyone is interested in working on a project like this (or has
> already done so) please let me know as I think it would be a useful
> addition for Octave and Emacs.

> Thanks,

> jwe

Below there is a basic script. It generates tags for the 'function'
entries and 'global' variables. Also for entries of the form,

###key label

in this way you can jump to specific places by typing 'M-. label'. The
'--include' option allows to include the tags from my TOOLS directory.

Don't take it too seriously, I'm not an expert in tags. Perhaps
someone else (Kurt?) has something better. 

Mario

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=================== 'otags' script ===============================
#!/bin/bash
#$Id: otags,v 1.5 1997/07/16 22:13:12 mstorti Exp mstorti $

etags --lang=none \
      --regex='/[ \t]*function *[^ =]*=\([^ (]*\)/\1/' \
      --regex='/[ \t]*global .*/' \
      --regex='/###key .*/' \
      --include="$HOME/OCTAVE/TOOLS/TAGS" \
      *.m