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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, john@yates-sheets.org,
	rms@gnu.org, fgunbin@fastmail.fm, casouri@gmail.com,
	sbaugh@janestreet.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, azeng@janestreet.com
Subject: Re: Adding support for xref jumping to headers/interfaces
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2023 14:06:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eaf8ded7-d285-ee18-3f49-69093aa11c78@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834jqzafse.fsf@gnu.org>

On 05/03/2023 08:11, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2023 00:24:01 +0200
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii<eliz@gnu.org>,rms@gnu.org,fgunbin@fastmail.fm,
>>   casouri@gmail.com,sbaugh@janestreet.com,emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>>   azeng@janestreet.com
>> From: Dmitry Gutov<dgutov@yandex.ru>
>>
>> Now, the next question is will we be able to provide some implementation
>> of this method using one of the default backends?
>>
>> elisp -- probably not.
>>
>> Can we have one for 'etags'? Even if we just limit it to a pre-defined
>> set of languages?
> For C-like languages, we'd need to run "etags --declarations" on *.h
> files for that, I think.  And the resulting TAGS table will have stuff
> other than just declarations, so we'd need some way of distinguishing
> between them and the rest.
> 
> Alternatively, perhaps it should be possible to add a special
> command-line option (--declarations-only ?) to etags, to cause it to
> output tags only for declarations.

The etags xref backend usually works with pre-generated tags files. So a 
way to distinguish between them and the rest would be best.

With the second approach, I suppose we'd have to have some new naming 
convention for tags files (like TAGS and TAGS.decl), and load two of 
them automatically.

If the feature is useful enough to go to all this trouble, of course.



  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-05 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 204+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-24 19:56 Adding support for xref jumping to headers/interfaces Spencer Baugh
2023-02-24 20:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-24 21:29   ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-02-27 23:12     ` Stephen Leake
2023-02-27 23:34       ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-02-28  0:18         ` Yuan Fu
2023-02-28 16:05           ` Filipp Gunbin
2023-03-01  4:33             ` Richard Stallman
2023-03-01 12:50               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-01 17:51                 ` John Yates
2023-03-04 18:54                   ` Stephen Leake
2023-03-04 22:24                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-05  6:11                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-05 12:06                         ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2023-03-07 22:41                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-08 14:58                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-08 18:23                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-08 19:49                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-08 20:15                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-09  6:13                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-09 13:04                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-09 15:36                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-09 16:53                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-09 17:31                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-09 17:37                                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-05-16 21:10                                                 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-05-17 11:46                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-17  1:53                                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-06-20 15:31                                                     ` João Távora
2023-06-22 19:22                                                       ` Spencer Baugh
2023-06-23  5:52                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-23 14:37                                                           ` Spencer Baugh
2023-06-23 14:53                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-23 15:03                                                         ` João Távora
2023-06-28 13:31                                                           ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-04 22:43                                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-04 22:00                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-04 22:24                                                         ` João Távora
2023-11-04 22:29                                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-04 22:36                                                             ` João Távora
2023-11-04 23:20                                                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-04 23:16                                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-04 23:21                                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-04 23:24                                                     ` João Távora
2023-11-04 23:27                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
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2023-11-07  9:36                                                                     ` João Távora
2023-11-07 22:56                                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08  0:14                                                                         ` João Távora
2023-11-05  8:16                                                     ` Eshel Yaron
2023-11-07  2:12                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-07 17:09                                                         ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-07 23:02                                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-07 21:30                                                         ` Eshel Yaron
2023-11-07 23:17                                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08  0:21                                                             ` João Távora
2023-11-08  0:33                                                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08  1:19                                                                 ` João Távora
2023-11-08 22:58                                                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 23:22                                                                     ` João Távora
2023-11-08 23:34                                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-09  0:50                                                                         ` João Távora
2023-11-09 16:59                                                                           ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-09 20:44                                                                             ` João Távora
2023-11-09 21:11                                                                               ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-10 10:06                                                                                 ` João Távora
2023-11-10 12:02                                                                                   ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-10 13:59                                                                                     ` João Távora
2023-11-10 17:36                                                                                       ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-11 10:45                                                                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-11 11:17                                                                                         ` João Távora
2023-11-11 12:38                                                                                           ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-11 20:49                                                                                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-15 21:32                                                                                               ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-24  1:37                                                                                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-24 21:43                                                                                                   ` Felician Nemeth
2023-11-25  2:20                                                                                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-26 16:08                                                                                                       ` Felician Nemeth
2023-11-26 20:15                                                                                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-26 20:37                                                                                                           ` João Távora
2023-11-27 14:35                                                                                                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-27 15:03                                                                                                               ` João Távora
2023-11-27 15:45                                                                                                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-27 16:04                                                                                                                   ` João Távora
2023-11-27 16:23                                                                                                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-27 16:41                                                                                                                       ` João Távora
2023-11-27 17:05                                                                                                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-27 17:09                                                                                                                           ` João Távora
2023-11-26 20:40                                                                                                         ` João Távora
2023-11-27 14:43                                                                                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-27 14:49                                                                                                             ` João Távora
2023-11-27 15:01                                                                                                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-27 15:19                                                                                                                 ` João Távora
2023-11-28  0:18                                                                                                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-28  9:51                                                                                                                     ` João Távora
2023-11-28 12:45                                                                                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-28 15:02                                                                                                                         ` João Távora
2023-11-28 16:32                                                                                                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-28 17:16                                                                                                                             ` João Távora
2023-11-28 17:25                                                                                                                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-28 18:38                                                                                                                                 ` João Távora
2023-11-27 15:28                                                                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-27 16:37                                                                                                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-27 16:45                                                                                                                     ` João Távora
2023-11-27 17:40                                                                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-27 18:26                                                                                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-27 20:50                                                                                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-27 20:53                                                                                                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-26 20:30                                                                                                   ` João Távora
2023-11-27 15:17                                                                                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-27 15:45                                                                                                       ` João Távora
2023-11-27 16:04                                                                                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-27 16:27                                                                                                           ` João Távora
2023-11-27 17:22                                                                                                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-27 17:46                                                                                                               ` João Távora
2023-11-27 18:12                                                                                                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-27 23:25                                                                                                                   ` João Távora
2023-11-28  0:30                                                                                                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-28  0:43                                                                                                                       ` João Távora
2023-11-11  1:01                                                                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-11  1:04                                                                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-11 11:30                                                                                     ` João Távora
2023-11-11 21:01                                                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-12 18:40                                                                                         ` João Távora
2023-11-13  0:27                                                                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-13  1:03                                                                                             ` João Távora
2023-11-13  1:05                                                                                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-13  1:16                                                                                                 ` João Távora
2023-11-13  1:41                                                                                                   ` electric-pair-mode vs paredit, was: " Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-13  1:53                                                                                                     ` João Távora
2023-11-11  0:58                                                                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-11 11:44                                                                                 ` João Távora
2023-11-11 21:37                                                                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-12 18:59                                                                                     ` João Távora
2023-11-13  1:37                                                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-11  1:08                                                                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-11 11:22                                                                                 ` João Távora
2023-11-11 20:54                                                                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 16:11                                                               ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-08 17:20                                                                 ` João Távora
2023-11-08 17:40                                                                   ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-08 23:08                                                                     ` João Távora
2023-11-09 16:52                                                                       ` CCing thread participants through gnus+gmane Spencer Baugh
2023-11-10 15:51                                                                         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2023-11-10 16:18                                                                         ` Visuwesh
2023-11-09 17:07                                                                       ` Adding support for xref jumping to headers/interfaces Spencer Baugh
2023-11-11  0:07                                                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-11 12:39                                                                           ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-11 20:45                                                                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 23:06                                                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-07 16:51                                                     ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-07 23:30                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 17:25                                                         ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-09  0:08                                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-09  0:26                                                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-09  1:06                                                               ` João Távora
2023-11-11  0:16                                                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-09 17:57                                                             ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-11  0:42                                                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-11 13:00                                                                 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-12  1:50                                                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-12  2:08                                                                     ` João Távora
2023-11-12  2:09                                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-12  2:25                                                                         ` João Távora
2023-11-13  1:02                                                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-13  1:24                                                                             ` João Távora
2023-03-01 15:00               ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-02-28 21:40           ` John Yates
2023-02-28 21:53             ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-02-28 22:44               ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-03-05  9:59 ` Helmut Eller
2023-03-05 12:03   ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-05 15:57     ` Helmut Eller
2023-03-05 16:33       ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-05 17:19         ` Stephen Leake
2023-03-05 20:10   ` João Távora
2023-03-05 20:32     ` João Távora
2023-03-05 20:40       ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-05 21:04         ` João Távora
2023-03-05 21:21           ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-05 21:48             ` João Távora
2023-03-05 22:08               ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-05 23:00                 ` João Távora
2023-03-05 23:40                 ` John Yates
2023-03-06 12:22                   ` Felician Nemeth
2023-03-06 13:15                     ` João Távora
2023-03-06 13:23                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-06 13:38                         ` João Távora
2023-03-06 13:46                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-06 13:52                             ` João Távora
2023-03-06 13:50                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-07  7:15                             ` Yuan Fu
2023-03-07 19:58                               ` Felician Nemeth
2023-03-07 20:44                                 ` Yuan Fu
2023-03-07 21:03                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-06 14:09                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-06 14:15                     ` John Yates
2023-03-06 14:23                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-06 14:43                         ` John Yates
2023-03-10  0:57                     ` Ergus
2023-03-10 21:55                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-10 22:18                         ` João Távora
2023-03-10 22:25                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-11 11:50                             ` João Távora
2023-03-10 23:45                         ` Ergus

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