[TxMt] Go To Symbol and Friends

Allan Odgaard throw-away-1 at macromates.com
Wed Jun 7 20:32:48 UTC 2006


On 7/6/2006, at 14:11, David Watson wrote:

> Is there a way to get this to show the symbols for all files in a  
> given
> directory?

No -- for that, TM would need to parse them all, which it doesn’t  
currently do. I am not entirely sure it would be the best approach --  
e.g. something like ctags has dedicated parsers to only grab symbols,  
and which are much much faster.

> [...] I recall this being common in IDE land, something like "Go To  
> Definition".

This does sound much like ctags functionality.




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