Global

Global - Source code tag system for C, C++, Java, and Yacc

GLOBAL is a browsing system for C, C++, Yacc and Java source code: it lets you find the locations of function definitions and functions references in source files. It is useful if you want to hack a large project containing many subdirectories, many '#ifdef' and many main() functions.

'Global' supports the following environments: a shell command line, a Web browser, and both the Emacs and vi editors. Other features include:

ability to locate object references as well as object definitions
allows duplicate objects
can generate a hypertext source tree.
can generate a dynamic index with a CGI program
tag files independent of machine architecture
supports plug-in parsers with its configuration file
supports a compact format to save disk space
supports incremental updating of tag files
treats a source tree containing subdirectories as a logical scope; you can get the relative path of objects from any where within that scope

Obtaining

Web page	http://www.gnu.org/software/global/
Source tarball	http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/global/global-4.5.tar.gz

Version 4.5 (stable) released on 2002-07-04

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.

This is a GNU package.

Documentation

User guide included and available online from http://www.gnu.org/software/global/manual/

Support contacts

Project contacts

Maintainers	Shigio Yamaguchi <shigio@gnu.org>
Developers	Shigio Yamaguchi <shigio@gnu.org>
Sponsors	Tama Communications Corp.

Related information

Interfaces	command line
Programs	global, gtags, btreeop, gtags.el, gozilla, extended nvi, gctags, htags, htmake
Source languages	C
Supported languages	C, C++, Java, Yacc
Build prerequisites	xlib6g

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-31
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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