From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding support for xref jumping to headers/interfaces Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2023 09:19:50 -0800 Message-ID: <86wn3vru89.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <18d0308a-947e-165e-b976-f839dea57fd8@yandex.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39998"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cc: Helmut Eller , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 05 18:20:44 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pYs2N-000AEl-7A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2023 18:20:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pYs1h-0004tY-0V; Sun, 05 Mar 2023 12:20:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pYs1f-0004tN-KX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2023 12:19:59 -0500 Original-Received: from gproxy2-pub.mail.unifiedlayer.com ([69.89.18.3]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pYs1d-0005hP-R9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2023 12:19:59 -0500 Original-Received: from cmgw12.mail.unifiedlayer.com (unknown [10.0.90.127]) by progateway4.mail.pro1.eigbox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEC7210047E0D for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2023 17:19:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from host2007.hostmonster.com ([67.20.76.71]) by cmsmtp with ESMTP id Ys1YpISmpbQKPYs1YpDJAh; Sun, 05 Mar 2023 17:19:54 +0000 X-Authority-Reason: nr=8 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.4 cv=Jd15EWGV c=1 sm=1 tr=0 ts=6404cf3a a=dWLzHQi6WpdymmZIwiVdBw==:117 a=Fln8i1WyhtedwaIJAdHvmw==:17 a=dLZJa+xiwSxG16/P+YVxDGlgEgI=:19 a=k__wU0fu6RkA:10:nop_rcvd_month_year a=vvvmwbhNdt4A:10:endurance_base64_authed_username_1 a=vaJtXVxTAAAA:8 a=rBLT321vYXA2Wqg21e0A:9 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=stephe-leake.org; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date: References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=syvj2xjswPfSo8GAQP7ucdFeIOvL5tp/YQe48cA9enE=; b=JjThg/Z25GEKfKHRNvfLyCQCIV knXcP0gYiR1EcNNl63bvzjKh2NxC2i7Dk/AdSUM6yTSNzxmzLcgWC0LziNoUYJXcFXFQmq6lJ7Ohc M/GQ+pN2kJjGwWHXYvV1LeqMlnmr0fVA/+CgcPUmuo6VMZVYVwVlDYxZfuKnkOoiAYOz1Pcn41fu+ BC33ZYZ0KIRvaUxPf+tw55S2etERrsZ17DIhUCwjpnFgcCHoNqtddagQpH7EM3LGRnkbGWXLjlXh9 ABBmbANip5kAl2dQCOI1GDFTmJbZ67wVJ48sSWFcXcbSOLaMNtyVQew+yragasiwXweMlKF5HUXQx V/Vv7Ngw==; Original-Received: from 135-180-197-170.fiber.dynamic.sonic.net ([135.180.197.170]:53106 helo=DESKTOP-G20DCG1) by host2007.hostmonster.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.95) (envelope-from ) id 1pYs1Y-002TH1-13; Sun, 05 Mar 2023 10:19:52 -0700 In-Reply-To: <18d0308a-947e-165e-b976-f839dea57fd8@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Sun, 5 Mar 2023 18:33:35 +0200") X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host2007.hostmonster.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - stephe-leake.org X-BWhitelist: no X-Source-IP: 135.180.197.170 X-Source-L: No X-Exim-ID: 1pYs1Y-002TH1-13 X-Source-Sender: 135-180-197-170.fiber.dynamic.sonic.net (DESKTOP-G20DCG1) [135.180.197.170]:53106 X-Source-Auth: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org X-Email-Count: 3 X-Source-Cap: c3RlcGhlbGU7c3RlcGhlbGU7aG9zdDIwMDcuaG9zdG1vbnN0ZXIuY29t X-Local-Domain: yes Received-SPF: pass client-ip=69.89.18.3; envelope-from=stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org; helo=gproxy2-pub.mail.unifiedlayer.com X-Spam_score_int: 16 X-Spam_score: 1.6 X-Spam_bar: + X-Spam_report: (1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_INVALID=0.1, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, RCVD_IN_SBL_CSS=3.335, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:303990 Archived-At: Dmitry Gutov writes: > On 05/03/2023 17:57, Helmut Eller wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 05 2023, Dmitry Gutov wrote: >> >>> On 05/03/2023 11:59, Helmut Eller wrote: >>>> I think that it's a bad idea to add language specific commands to xref. >>>> The next thing is that we have commands for jump-to-variable and >>>> jump-to-constant and jump-to-macro ... >>>> It would be better to leave those commands in the language specific >>>> mode >>>> with the C-c prefix. >>> Is it still a problem if the command applies to a lot (most) of languages? >> It still creates this problem: as a user I don't know which command to >> use, the more specific or the more general or both. > > When you need a declaration, use xref-find-declarations, and > otherwise, xref-find-definitions, I guess? Spencer, who started this > thread, apparently had a use case where he needs to "jump to > interface". ada-mode has "wisi-goto-spec/body"; if on a body (definition), goto specification (declaration), if on a spec, goto body, if on a reference, goto spec. -- -- Stephe