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To make doxymacs searching code documents (C-c d ?), we need the tag file from doxygen, so need a setting

And for using in a developing code, which is not well documented, we need

And for deleper to see all the contents, we need

The tag file only lists where the tag is in the HTML document. However, the XML output, especially the one-file format which can get by

holds everything doxygen knows. So parsing this file may make a source code browser like (x)cscope. If this can works in Emacs, we can beat xref

There is an XML parser library for this doxygen output in the addon/doxmlparser directory of the release, and an example called metrics. However I can’t get them compiled on my FreeBSD, both version 1.3.6 and 1.4.1.

Note for the code browsing purpose, we might want to set

to reduce the size of the XML file and speed up. Also we need

to get the XML output.

The interface (both the user interface and the c-lisp interface) can model the (x)cscope package. The license of C source file will depend on the doxygen parser lib. Also we might borrow some interface from the xref package.

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Tags: emacs, code browser, doxygen, doxymacs