From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jorgen Schaefer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Generalizing find-definition Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 18:58:57 +0100 Message-ID: <20141103185857.4178b438@forcix> References: <20141102151524.0d9c665c@forcix> <85a949utmn.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <20141103083143.646fb3e0@forcix> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415037577 2640 80.91.229.3 (3 Nov 2014 17:59:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 17:59:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Helmut Eller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 03 18:59:30 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XlLuc-0002WM-7w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 18:59:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36578 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XlLub-0004Ed-NJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 12:59:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45907) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XlLuG-000495-IU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 12:59:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XlLu9-0001f1-3W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 12:59:08 -0500 Original-Received: from loki.jorgenschaefer.de ([87.230.15.51]:35949) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XlLu8-0001eo-T0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 12:59:01 -0500 Original-Received: by loki.jorgenschaefer.de (Postfix, from userid 998) id 66D802045AD; Mon, 3 Nov 2014 18:58:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from forcix (port-4853.pppoe.wtnet.de [84.46.19.8]) by loki.jorgenschaefer.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C2B572045A9; Mon, 3 Nov 2014 18:58:58 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.25; i586-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 87.230.15.51 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:176292 Archived-At: On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 09:13:45 +0100 Helmut Eller wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03 2014, Jorgen Schaefer wrote: > > >> I have my own hack for this; It requires me to distinguish between > >> variable and defun names and invoke separate keys; I hope you can > >> remove that annoyance. > > > > I'm not sure how I can remove that annoyance - is that not > > language-dependent? What kind of functionality would you require > > there? > > One way to solve this is to merge the list of candidates for functions > and variables. At least that's what we do in SLIME. In elisp-mode > M-. could combine the candidates of find-function and find-variable. > Most of the time the merged list would only contain a single > candidate. Why would the proposed find-definition interface make a distinction between variables and functions at all? So far, there has been none proposed? Does that mean that this is not an issue? That'd be great :-) Regards, Jorgen