From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: 50067@debbugs.gnu.org, Tak Kunihiro <homeros.misasa@gmail.com>,
tkk@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
Subject: bug#50067: Context menus
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 10:31:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7fkh8z8.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004A628A-99CC-4C62-8AE2-921C4C38D42A@acm.org> ("Mattias Engdegård"'s message of "Thu, 19 Aug 2021 16:22:39 +0200")
>> Yes it works for elisp, because its xref backend is simplistic enough to
>> just accept the symbol given as argument. An example of a package where
>> it doesn't work is merlin which is rather more sophisticated and wants to
>> find the exact context so that it can find the right definition, so it
>> ignores the argument.
>
> Having actually read the doc strings I see that xref backends are supposed
> to define `xref-backend-identifier-at-point` which can stuff any
> information it needs in a property of the string it returns, as sort of
> a semi-covert channel to `xref-backend-definitions` etc. Sorry about the
> unfounded complaint.
>
> Would adding `xref-find-references-at-mouse` be handy for use in the context menu?
If the existing `xref-backend-identifier-at-point` can't be reused
by adding a new optional arg `click`, then a cleaner solution
would be to add `xref-backend-identifier-at-mouse` indeed.
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2021-08-18 16:42 ` bug#50067: Context menus Juri Linkov
2021-08-18 17:46 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-08-18 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-19 14:22 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-08-20 7:31 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2021-08-20 17:06 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-08-20 23:31 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-21 4:43 ` Tak Kunihiro
2021-08-21 6:33 ` Tak Kunihiro
2021-08-22 8:28 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-23 3:11 ` Tak Kunihiro
2021-08-23 7:24 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-24 10:12 ` Tak Kunihiro
2021-08-24 17:23 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-24 23:43 ` Tak Kunihiro
2021-08-25 17:45 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-26 6:13 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-27 6:24 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-28 5:18 ` Tak Kunihiro
2021-08-31 17:37 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-31 17:43 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-31 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-01 7:12 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-18 17:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-18 18:01 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-08-18 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-18 18:06 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-18 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-18 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-19 1:31 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-08-19 6:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-18 18:40 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-18 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-19 7:12 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-19 7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-20 7:29 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-20 10:29 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-08-20 10:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-20 11:32 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-08-20 16:50 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-20 17:11 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-08-20 11:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-20 16:36 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-20 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-20 19:29 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-08-21 9:42 ` Alan Third
2021-08-21 10:57 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-08-21 11:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-21 11:45 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-08-21 12:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-22 19:11 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-22 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-22 19:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-23 2:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-23 11:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-23 11:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-23 16:02 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-24 17:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-25 14:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-25 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-26 13:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-26 21:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-26 21:07 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-27 6:13 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-27 6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-30 2:45 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-30 11:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-31 7:05 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-31 12:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-31 16:56 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-31 20:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-01 7:08 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-01 19:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-05 0:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-05 8:37 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-05 19:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-22 8:46 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-15 8:48 Juri Linkov
2021-08-15 11:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-15 16:12 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-16 11:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-17 8:12 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-18 4:38 ` Tak Kunihiro
2021-08-18 7:47 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-28 9:08 ` Naoya Yamashita
2021-08-28 18:50 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-27 15:30 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-27 15:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-28 18:49 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-29 7:00 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-27 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-28 18:54 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-28 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-27 15:33 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-20 16:59 ` Juri Linkov
2021-11-08 20:05 ` Juri Linkov
2021-11-18 18:38 ` Juri Linkov
2021-11-25 7:50 ` Juri Linkov
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