From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: xref and GNU Global? Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 10:46:42 +0300 Message-ID: <837fopjd7h.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d1yjfy6d.fsf@petton.fr> <55D4912E.7050703@yandex.ru> <871tezm0h4.fsf@petton.fr> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440143242 17571 80.91.229.3 (21 Aug 2015 07:47:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 07:47:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Nicolas Petton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 21 09:47:14 2015 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 1ZSh2P-0003dk-02 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:46:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40281 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSh2O-0005dB-Aq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 03:46:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47033) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSh2J-0005Zg-BQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 03:46:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSh2G-0007V0-50 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 03:46:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:33462) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSh2F-0007Ta-Po for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 03:46:48 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NTF00G00976NJ00@mtaout25.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 10:43:11 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NTF00BA09FZ9160@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 10:43:11 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <871tezm0h4.fsf@petton.fr> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 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:189024 Archived-At: > From: Nicolas Petton > Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 23:28:55 +0200 > > Dmitry Gutov writes: > > > On 08/19/2015 12:02 PM, Nicolas Petton wrote: > > > >> I find GNU Global to be far superior to etags or ctags. Is there any > >> plan to have support for it in xref.el? (Or maybe there is and I missed > >> it). Else I might start working on that. > > > > I would approach it from a different direction: by adding xref support > > to ggtags (in GNU ELPA). > > I meant in general, with ggtags or something else, but yes, I'd probably > do it this way too. If we want GNU Global support be part of the core functionality, and consider it as replacement for etags, then its support should be in core Emacs, not on ELPA.