From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: matzikratzi@gmail.com, 2544@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#2544: 23.0.60; Could etags please try find a local tag first?
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 18:56:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8335sa70wp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878s22nyuj.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:48:52 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:48:52 +0200
> Cc: 2544@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Matzi Kratzi <matzikratzi@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Would it make sense, in general, for etags to first try to find a tag
> > inside the current buffer? I am working in legacy code that has the
> > same name for certain help functions in many files. I would like etags
> > to first try find the tag inside the current buffer.
>
> (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got no response at
> the time.)
>
> I can certainly see cases where that would be useful. I think much of
> this stuff has been rewritten in terms of xref now? I gave the xref
> code a quick look-over, but I didn't see anything obvious in this
> area...
>
> Does anybody know whether Emacs grown support for this use case in the
> 12 years since this bug report was filed?
We did switch to Xref, but for many languages (including C), Xref
still uses etags as its back-end. So etags is still relevant.
As for the original request: I guess we could satisfy that by having
Xref sort the matches so that those in the current buffer come first
in the display we show in the *XREF* buffer? Dmitry, would it make
sense to add such an option, and if so, would it be hard to do so? In
xref--alistify, perhaps, or in xref--analyze?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-19 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-02 21:36 bug#2544: 23.0.60; Could etags please try find a local tag first? Matzi Kratzi
2021-07-19 14:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-19 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-07-19 23:00 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-07-20 11:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-20 16:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-07-20 11:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-20 16:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-07-20 16:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-20 22:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-07-21 10:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-26 23:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-07-28 15:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-02 2:11 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-02 11:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-06 0:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
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