From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#2544: 23.0.60; Could etags please try find a local tag first? Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 18:56:22 +0300 Message-ID: <8335sa70wp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <7f9b11c90903021336o775a3f75i8bd89f3ae4540cb7@mail.gmail.com> <878s22nyuj.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28010"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: matzikratzi@gmail.com, 2544@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen , Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 19 17:58:36 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m5Vf1-0006jQ-Fs for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 19 Jul 2021 17:58:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40630 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m5Vf0-0008KO-IM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 19 Jul 2021 11:58:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54586) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m5Vdf-0006Yu-2e for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jul 2021 11:57:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:48489) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m5Vde-0002AD-B2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jul 2021 11:57:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1m5Vde-00089j-Bm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jul 2021 11:57:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 15:57:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 2544 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 2544-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B2544.162671019631291 (code B ref 2544); Mon, 19 Jul 2021 15:57:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 2544) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Jul 2021 15:56:36 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60029 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1m5VdD-00088c-L1 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jul 2021 11:56:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56680) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1m5VdB-00088O-Q1 for 2544@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jul 2021 11:56:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47114) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m5Vd6-0001kR-BF; Mon, 19 Jul 2021 11:56:28 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2568 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m5Vd5-0001ez-KO; Mon, 19 Jul 2021 11:56:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <878s22nyuj.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:48:52 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:210281 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:48:52 +0200 > Cc: 2544@debbugs.gnu.org > > Matzi Kratzi 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?