From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: xref and GNU Global? Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:16:30 -0500 Message-ID: <86h9nurnw1.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <87d1yjfy6d.fsf@petton.fr> <86pp2js78p.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <874mjvm0iz.fsf@petton.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440119225 30158 80.91.229.3 (21 Aug 2015 01:07:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 01:07:05 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 21 03:06:55 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 1ZSanG-0004JO-2X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 03:06:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40566 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSRb0-0001bl-2U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:17:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51022) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSRaP-0001ZG-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:17:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSRaM-0000zv-V9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:17:01 -0400 Original-Received: from gproxy8-pub.mail.unifiedlayer.com ([67.222.33.93]:54683) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSRaM-0000za-Gq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:16:58 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 16012 invoked by uid 0); 20 Aug 2015 15:16:49 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO cmgw2) (10.0.90.83) by gproxy8.mail.unifiedlayer.com with SMTP; 20 Aug 2015 15:16:49 -0000 Original-Received: from host114.hostmonster.com ([74.220.207.114]) by cmgw2 with id 73Gg1r01F2UdiVW013GjNy; Thu, 20 Aug 2015 09:16:47 -0600 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=C6F6l2/+ c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=CQdxDb2CKd3SRg4I0/XZPQ==:117 a=CQdxDb2CKd3SRg4I0/XZPQ==:17 a=DsvgjBjRAAAA:8 a=f5113yIGAAAA:8 a=9i_RQKNPAAAA:8 a=y7kgw_RnJtkA:10 a=hEr_IkYJT6EA:10 a=x_XPkuGwIRMA:10 a=uRRa74qj2VoA:10 a=EG6t98spGgOWqHcZm4oA:9 Original-Received: from [76.218.37.33] (port=51781 helo=TAKVER2) by host114.hostmonster.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSRa6-0002UB-8w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2015 09:16:42 -0600 In-Reply-To: <874mjvm0iz.fsf@petton.fr> (Nicolas Petton's message of "Wed, 19 Aug 2015 23:27:48 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (windows-nt) X-Identified-User: {2442:host114.hostmonster.com:stephele:stephe-leake.org} {sentby:smtp auth 76.218.37.33 authed with stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org} X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 67.222.33.93 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:189005 Archived-At: Nicolas Petton writes: > Stephen Leake writes: > >> Nicolas Petton writes: >> >>> 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. >> >> Currently there is support for GNU Global in Semantic, and xref has some >> hooks into Semantic. >> >> So please post your specific use cases, and we can discuss gettting >> those to work via xref/Semantic. > > I haven't used xref.el at all yet, so I don't have any use case, but > I'll try it and tell you! The use case is for Gnu Global, not for xref. Give an example of how you currently use Gnu Global, and we can see if xref can (or even should) support that. -- -- Stephe