Install proofgeneral-coq Debian package; this gives you coqtags. In the root of your soure folder run find . -name *.v | xargs coqtags This gives you a file TAGS Emacs loads this file and allows you then to jump to definitions using M-. And back to where you came from using M-* See http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsTags for shortcuts