Finding the declaration of a variable in Emacs

Posted Sep 4, 2018 9:34 UTC (Tue) by cpitrat (subscriber, #116459)
In reply to: Finding the declaration of a variable in Emacs by giraffedata
Parent article: C considered dangerous

You can use exuberant-ctags. By default, it doesn't include local variables but you can have them with --c-kinds=+l.
To produce file for emacs you also need -e.
So something like:
ctags -e --c-kinds=+l .

Then you can jump to local variable declarations using M-.