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: Generalizing find-definition Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 17:57:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20141102151524.0d9c665c@forcix> <20141117211039.37f03409@forcix> <877fymghgb.fsf@bredband.net> <85ppc0qf9a.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <85zjb3o09d.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <85tx1amnyg.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <85egsem1u2.fsf@stephe-leake.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417906717 26560 80.91.229.3 (6 Dec 2014 22:58:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 22:58:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Helmut Eller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 06 23:58:30 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 1XxOJ3-0003dG-Eh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 23:58:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55849 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxOJ3-0005To-3I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 17:58:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41395) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxOIi-0005TW-9a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 17:58:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxOIa-0002pl-QK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 17:58:08 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:52995) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxOIa-0002pg-Mx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 17:58:00 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjsPAOwQflRMCqTq/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCws0EhQYDSSISgnWWQEBAQEGAQEBAR6QbweESAWLAaQugXiEGSGCdwEBAQ X-IPAS-Result: AjsPAOwQflRMCqTq/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCws0EhQYDSSISgnWWQEBAQEGAQEBAR6QbweESAWLAaQugXiEGSGCdwEBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,502,1413259200"; d="scan'208";a="99730344" Original-Received: from 76-10-164-234.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.164.234]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 06 Dec 2014 17:58:00 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D0AAD986F; Sat, 6 Dec 2014 17:57:59 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Helmut Eller's message of "Sat, 06 Dec 2014 09:55:13 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (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:179223 Archived-At: > I guess such filenames or URLs (URIs?) typically occur in comments, > string literals, or perhaps in things like #include or > (require 'some-library). M-x ffap seems cover this partially, but then > there's also M-x find-library. Certainly a lot of things to find! Indeed, and I don't think M-. should care about those cases. C-x C-f is supposed to handle those cases instead. This said, I think the most urgent step is to get such a generalized find-definition into Emacs. Stefan