Emacs/vi TAGS tools

[cwyang]

Hi,

Do you use otags III for generating emacs TAG file to browse codebase? If not, can you recommend a tool to generate TAGS?

[c-cube]

I strongly recomment using merlin instead of tags. It’s infinitely superior.

[cwyang]

Thank you. I’ll look into merlin tools.

[kuwze]

Could someone maybe explain how using Merlin removes the need for tags?

[c-cube]

Merlin provides autocompletion (based on proper scoping, not just names), type inference of what’s under the cursor, access to doc, and jump-to-def (even across libraries if they install their source files). How to make this work is explained in merlin’s wiki.