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From: Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com>
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Subject: Re: IDE versus emacs
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Tima wrote:
> The programming feature I miss most in emacs is the code browsing:
> jump to the definition of a method, function, class, variable, and
> jump back to the original position. I tried to configure CEDET to do
> this, but have not succeeded so far.

I have always used TAGs tables created using the etags comand for
this.  Then M-. , C-x 5 . and so forth.  Then I usually M-*
pop-tag-mark or pop-global-mark or some such to return.  In the Emacs
manual this is described in the "Tags Tables" section.

Bob