From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-lisp-mode and find-tag Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:24:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1403281527 14065 80.91.229.3 (20 Jun 2014 16:25:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:25:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 20 18:25:17 2014 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 1Wy1co-00023o-AO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:25:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41968 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wy1cn-0006Wt-3j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:25:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51409) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wy1cc-0006Qj-Fv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:25:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wy1cU-0008ML-3F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:25:02 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:20716) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wy1cL-0008KO-96; Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:24:45 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArUGAIDvNVNLd+D9/2dsb2JhbABZgwaDSsA9gRcXdIIlAQEBAQIBViMQCzQSFBgNiCgI0hkXjnoHhDgEqRmBaoNMIQ X-IPAS-Result: ArUGAIDvNVNLd+D9/2dsb2JhbABZgwaDSsA9gRcXdIIlAQEBAQIBViMQCzQSFBgNiCgI0hkXjnoHhDgEqRmBaoNMIQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,753,1389762000"; d="scan'208";a="68798560" Original-Received: from 75-119-224-253.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([75.119.224.253]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 20 Jun 2014 12:24:44 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1597461711; Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:24:44 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Alfred M. Szmidt's message of "Fri, 20 Jun 2014 11:52:06 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:172581 Archived-At: >> Is there some specific reason why M-. (find-tag) doesn't work by >> default in emacs-lisp files? There seems to be little point in >> using etags seeing that emacs already knows where the source is >> of a given function. > Because currently M-. doesn't mean "jump to definition" but "jump > to definition according to TAGS file". > That kinda depends on the mode, no? No, that's the problem. Of course, some modes may decide to rebind M-. but that's rare. Stefan