[comp.text.tex] tags for tex?

mic@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Michelangelo Grigni) (04/02/91)

Is there a robust tags facility for TeX (and LaTeX etc), i.e. for a
given \controlsequence in context, find the file where it was defined.
"grep" and its ilk are often not good enough, both because a given
control sequence may be defined in many files, and because there are
many nonobvious ways to define a macro.

A robust solution would be built into TeX itself, some record that the
current binding of \foo was last modified while reading "line XX of
file FFFF".  This would memory hungry, but useful for debugging and
modifying packages.
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