From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
Cc: 32510@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32510: xref-find-definitions should return file names, too
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 04:50:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h87qzlz9.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a3594dbf23c19addc79652c8729a06bc@ludovic-brenta.org> (Ludovic Brenta's message of "Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:32:21 +0100")
Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:
> It would be nice if xref-find-definitions returned files in
> addition to language-specific "definitions". For example:
>
> M-. foo-bar.adb RET
>
> should open the file foo-bar.adb (wherever it is in the
> potentially complex directory structure of the project) and
> leave point at the beginning of the file.
>
> This is a feature of find-tag but find-tag is now deprecated
> in favor of xref-find-definitions; so this feature is missing
> and xref-find-definitions is not yet a complete replacement for
> find-tag.
Hm... it seems to me that a command like that seems to belong more in
something like project.el than in xref, which has a different scope. So
I'm closing this bug report; if somebody else disagrees, please reopen.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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[not found] <87ftnazlz3.fsf@mouse.gnus.org>
2018-08-23 15:32 ` bug#32510: xref-find-definitions should return file names, too Ludovic Brenta
2019-07-13 2:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
[not found] ` <handler.32510.C.15629862456126.notifdonectrl.0@debbugs.gnu.org>
2019-07-13 19:34 ` bug#32510: acknowledged by developer (control message for bug #32510) Ludovic Brenta
2019-07-13 23:25 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-14 5:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-30 0:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-07-30 14:00 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-08-03 10:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-15 13:54 ` bug#32510: Tags: wontfix -> patch Ludovic Brenta
2019-07-18 14:53 ` bug#32510: xref-find-definitions should return file names, too Ludovic Brenta
2019-07-18 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-18 15:54 ` Ludovic Brenta
2019-07-18 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-19 22:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-07-20 7:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
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