Re: Fwd: What do these terms mean in the SOURCE CODE?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> Here's my single biggest tip for newcomers to the Postgres source:
> if you don't use ctags, glimpse, or some other tool that can quickly
> show you all references to a given identifier, go out and get one.
> It's one of the easiest ways to learn about things.

I've been using cscope (out of advice from Joshua Tolley), and even
better its integration into Emacs which is called xcscope.el --- I
wouldn't have been able to come up with the extension patch series
without that.
 http://cscope.sourceforge.net/

And as a quick teaser, the keys I mostly use:
 C-c s d        cscope-find-global-definition C-c s s        cscope-find-this-symbol C-c s f
cscope-find-this-fileC-c s I        cscope-index-files
 

Regards,
-- 
Dimitri Fontaine
http://2ndQuadrant.fr     PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support