The Methods window - ECB - the Emacs Code Browser
Description: ECB - the Emacs Code Browser

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### 6.6 Using and customizing the ECB-Methods window

ECB is mostly designed to display parsing information for files supported by semantic. But beginning with version 1.94 it also supports other parsing engines like imenu and etags, so also files not supported by semantic but by imenu/etags can be displayed in the Method-buffer of ECB. Therefore we have to introduce some terminology:

- semantic-sources: These are file-types for which a semantic grammar is available, so the files are parse-able by semantic. These sources are supported best by ECB and most of the following options and descriptions are related to these file-types. Examples are programming-sources like C++, C, Java, Emacs-Lisp and Texinfo-file and some more.

- non-semantic-sources: For these files there is no semantic-grammar available so they can not be parsed by semantic. Examples are Perl-, LaTeX- and TeX-files. But for many of these files imenu and/or etags parsers exist. ECB supports now parsing and displaying these file-types too and it uses for this some speedbar-logic.

This chapter describes how to use and customize the Methods-buffer of ECB.