General hints - ECB - the Emacs Code Browser
Description: ECB - the Emacs Code Browser

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#### 1.2.1 General hints for a correct setup

ECB is for browsing files and therefore you have to setup your Emacs-configuration properly so the file-parsing engines like semantic, imenu or etags can be activated automatically for parsing your Emacs-Lisp, C, C++ or Java buffers1. For this Emacs must activate the correct `major-mode` for the source-files and Emacs can only do this if the option `auto-mode-alist` is setup correctly. The correct major-modes and possible file-extensions2 are:

Language | Major-mode | Extension(s)
Emacs Lisp | `emacs-lisp-mode` | .el
C | `c-mode` | .h, .c
C++ | `c++-mode` | .h, .hxx, .hh, .HH, .cxx, .cpp, .cc, .CC
Java | `java-mode` or `jde-mode` (if you use JDEE) | .java

Example: If you want files with extension “.cpp” being c++-parsed by semantic and ECB, your `auto-mode-alist` must contain an entry like:

       ("\\.cpp\\'" . c++-mode)

After this ECB will correctly parse your “.cpp”-sources and display all the parsing information in the ECB-methods buffer.

#### Footnotes

[1] semantic supports some more “languages” like Phython, Makefiles and some more. But these are the most important ones.

[2] Especially for C++ and C you can use any extension you want but these are the most common ones!