EBROWSE(1)

💖 EBROWSE(1) — the ebrowse manual page, bestie edition 💖

okay so you opened the ebrowse man page (it lives in section 1 of the manual, and it's a GNU thing, so you know it's gonna be thorough 💅). Full docs? they're out there in GNU Info format, but like… this is the vibe summary. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

ebrowse — create a class hierarchy database 🗂️✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ebrowse [options] [FILES...]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this page is the brief lil' rundown of the ebrowse command, fr fr. The full documentation is available in the GNU Info format if you want the whole saga.

What does ebrowse actually do? It creates the database that the class browser in Emacs uses. that's it, that's the job 🫶 it's giving "quietly iconic infrastructure."

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, and jsyk: long options start with two dashes (-).

• -a, --append — append the output to an existing file (yes, it'll just add to it, not start over 💫)
• -f, --files=FILES — read input file names from FILE
• -I, --search-path=LIST — set the search path for input files 🔍
• -m, --min-regexp-length=N — set the minimum regexp length to N
• -M, --max-regexp-length=N — set the maximum regexp length to N
• -n, --no-nested-classes — exclude nested classes 🚫
• -o, --output-file=FILE — set the output file name to FILE
• -p, --position-info — print info about position in file 📍
• -s, --no-structs-or-unions — don't record structs or unions
• -v, --verbose — be verbose 🗣️
• -V, --very-verbose — be VERY verbose 😭 like, no chill at all
• -x, --no-regexps — don't record regular expressions
• --help — display this help 🆘
• --version — display version info 🏷️

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• emacs(1)
• etags(1)
• and the full documentation for ebrowse, which is maintained as a Texinfo manual 📖

If the info and ebrowse programs are properly installed at your site, then this command:

info ebrowse

should give you access to the complete manual. slay, go read it 🧚

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

ebrowse was written by Gerd Moellmann. 👑

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🎀 COPYING 🎀

Copyright 2008–2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this document provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this document under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this document into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Free Software Foundation.

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ok that's the whole page bestie, nothing skipped, every last flag accounted for 💖

and for the cute lil' sign-off: this one's from GNU Emacs, dated 2008-12-14, and it's the EBROWSE(1) page — periodt. 🫶✨