EBROWSE(1)

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okay so you just opened EBROWSE(1) — that's the GNU manual page, section 1 — and bestie, it's actually about making a class hierarchy database. stay with me, it's gonna be a good time 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

ebrowse — create a class hierarchy database. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ebrowse [options] [FILES...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this manual page is like, a brief rundown of the ebrowse command — the full tea is available in the GNU Info format if you want the whole story, iykyk.

Basically ebrowse creates the database that the class browser in Emacs uses. that's the job. that's what it does. main character energy fr 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes ("-"). noted, iconic, moving on ✨

  • -a, --append — append the output to an existing file instead of starting fresh, lowkey useful 💫
  • -f, --files=FILES — read the 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, we're not going there 🚫
  • -o, --output-file=FILE — set the output file name to FILE
  • -p, --position-info — print info about position in file, little detective moment 🔍
  • -s, --no-structs-or-unions — don't record structs or unions, nope, not today
  • -v, --verbose — be verbose
  • -V, --very-verbose — be very verbose. yes there are two levels. slay 💀
  • -x, --no-regexps — don't record regular expressions
  • --help — display this help
  • --version — display version info

🌈 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, this command:

info ebrowse

should give you access to the complete manual. go get that lore, bestie 🧚

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Ebrowse was written by Gerd Moellmann. thank you king 👑✨

💜 COPYING 💜

Copyright 2008–2026 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.

aaaand that's the whole page 🍓 this one's from GNU Emacs, dated 2008-12-14 — shoutout to the OG, and good luck with your class hierarchy bestie, you're gonna ate 💅💖

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