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 10:30:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1403274673 21311 80.91.229.3 (20 Jun 2014 14:31:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:31:13 +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 16:31:07 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 1WxzqM-0004tI-26 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:31:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41380 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WxzqL-0001RE-M8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:31:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50425) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WxzqA-0001PR-FP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:31:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wxzq2-0005gq-Ii for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:30:54 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:38566) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wxzpu-0005fH-Fk; Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:30:38 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArUGAIDvNVNLd+D9/2dsb2JhbABZgwaDSsA9gRcXdIIlAQEBAQIBViMFCws0EhQYDYgoCNIZF456B4Q4BKkZgWqDTCE X-IPAS-Result: ArUGAIDvNVNLd+D9/2dsb2JhbABZgwaDSsA9gRcXdIIlAQEBAQIBViMFCws0EhQYDYgoCNIZF456B4Q4BKkZgWqDTCE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,753,1389762000"; d="scan'208";a="68756331" 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 10:30:37 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7589460D09; Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:30:37 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Alfred M. Szmidt's message of "Fri, 20 Jun 2014 08:32:32 -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:172571 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". I think it would be good to provide a generic M-. (and M-*, ..) binding that several backends (etags, symbol-file, ...) can then use. Stefan