From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: "Arthur Miller" <arthur.miller@live.com>,
"Daniel Martín" <mardani29@yahoo.es>
Cc: me@wilfred.me.uk, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Helpful in Emacs?
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 01:55:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bcd43415-863d-4602-d407-ac6b7e74399f@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM9PR09MB49776136CF7247B2A985A8A196D59@AM9PR09MB4977.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com>
On 09.09.2021 23:23, Arthur Miller wrote:
> What do you need to build xref backend you mention? As mentioned on elisp-refs
> gh page:
>
> "xref-find-references: This command is included in Emacs 25.1, but it's based on
> a text search. It is confused by comments and strings, and cannot distinguish
> between functions and variables."
>
> Would rebuilding this command to use read instead of text search do the thing?
You can easily plug another search implementation in
xref-find-references. You can even make summaries multiline (though that
would feel weird to me).
But is elisp-refs that much better at searching? Distinguishing
variables from functions sounds nice, but then you might want to rename
the function -- and you'll probably want to rename the variable with the
same name as well.
Same about comments: if elisp-refs skips comments altogether (rather
than smartly parsing references inside), you might miss some references
to your function when doing a rename.
I also wonder how it compares in performance.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-09 22:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-09 10:57 Helpful in Emacs? Arthur Miller
2021-09-09 11:34 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-09 12:35 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-09 15:21 ` Daniel Martín
2021-09-09 15:48 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-10 6:20 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-10 7:11 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-10 7:19 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-10 7:58 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-10 8:14 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-09-10 12:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-10 7:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-10 8:00 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-10 11:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-10 11:41 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-09 19:21 ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-09-09 19:51 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-09 20:23 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-09 22:55 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2021-09-10 0:52 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-10 6:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-10 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-10 6:21 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-10 6:30 ` Juri Linkov
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