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o GNU GLOBAL handbook

GNU GLOBAL handbook 'GNU GLOBAL handbook'(ISBN978-4-9903617-6-1, B5 size, 327 pages) was published in April 11 2012. It is not a mere manual but a book which explains the concept and usage of GLOBAL in detail. All about GLOBAL is written in this book.

But the book is written in Japanese, and is sold only in Japan. If you want to read this book, would you please make a request of translation and publication of it to publishing companies in your country? Thank you in advance.

* Contents

This book consists of five parts.

Part I Introduction

You can install GLOBAL and use it in a basic way.
  • Installation
  • Getting Started

Part II Basic

You can understand the concept of GLOBAL, and how to use the each basic commands of GLOBAL in detail.
  • Concept
  • gtags
  • global
  • htags
  • gozilla
  • Server Side GLOBAL (client/server mode)

Part III Application

In this part, you can understand usage of GLOBAL in various applications like emacs, vi, less, and etc. The chapter 'Emacs(2)' treats semantic-mode and auto-complete-mode. The chapter 'Exuberant Ctags' describes how to use ctags as a parser of GLOBAL. (This means that GLOBAL already has parsers for tens of languages.)
  • vim
  • elvis
  • less
  • emacs(1)
  • emacs(2)
  • globash
  • gtags-cscope
  • Doxygen
  • cflow
  • Exuberant Ctags

Part IV Development

This part contains techniques to develop applications using GLOBAL. You can add new language support to GLOBAL, or can make GLOBAL a tag system of your new editor.
  • How to write parsers for new languages.
  • How to write editors which include GLOBAL facilities.

Part V Appendix

This part contains various information about the followings.
  • The Internal Structure of Tag Files.
  • Configuration File.
  • Getting and Installation of Various Software.
  • Reference Manuals.