From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Xu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Xref completion Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 22:16:56 +0100 Organization: the Church of Emacs Message-ID: References: <873617ets1.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <878sazzsw5.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14094"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (darwin) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:4h2jlTFlwYE5vUvBjIXQkwzSYzM= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 17 22:17:50 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kf8MH-0003Wr-05 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 22:17:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36888 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kf8MG-0005XJ-3P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:17:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:32822) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kf8Le-00057V-0o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:17:10 -0500 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:58492 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kf8Lc-0001co-EV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:17:09 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kf8LY-0002fq-IR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 22:17:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/17 16:07:39 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: 5 X-Spam_score: 0.5 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (0.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD=1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:259317 Archived-At: Juri Linkov writes: >> In particular, I've overridden the behaviour with regards to Xrefs and >> instead of showing the Xref buffer, I'm now offering completion: the >> user can match against the symbol but also against the file and line >> position. > > It seems this should be possible by customizing the value of > xref-show-definitions-function to a function that would redirect > a list of found results to completing-read. Wow, that is a life saver. (defun my-xref--show-defs-minibuffer (fetcher alist) (let* ((xrefs (funcall fetcher)) (xref-alist (xref--analyze xrefs)) (xref (if (not (cdr xrefs)) (car xrefs) (cadr (assoc (completing-read "Jump to definition: " xref-alist) xref-alist))))) (xref-pop-to-location xref (assoc-default 'display-action alist)))) (setq xref-show-definitions-function 'my-xref--show-defs-minibuffer) -- William