From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Helmut Eller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: xref-find-matches and stuff Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 11:17:12 +0200 Message-ID: References: <5546DD4A.2080709@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1430731045 25912 80.91.229.3 (4 May 2015 09:17:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 09:17:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 04 11:17:25 2015 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 1YpCV9-0001D5-Se for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 May 2015 11:17:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33341 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpCV9-0003bh-1M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 May 2015 05:17:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36797) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpCV6-0003bX-8r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2015 05:17:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpCV1-0004ef-Qc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2015 05:17:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-x229.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::229]:34913) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpCV1-0004eb-GH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2015 05:17:15 -0400 Original-Received: by widdi4 with SMTP id di4so114148246wid.0 for ; Mon, 04 May 2015 02:17:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=0IyO+C3iZ/pLf0tNnJXZyQJw5+vHmDE/T0cGfVIbbGk=; b=R3gu1TU9kdBWDQCmCIGBhV7IpcXFs6O37LKsinWRg50X3LqeCn1pFtASCMKu961H2E KVvoUp+YKMVk+PqmJcT1pAPZPd6KJgsCmTkPNBeQKi40SUktovAb8XJj+bv+UdqwEekP WgaSbFEXb2o9Emi174r9X27TDNmq8e9C2nQcuuPmMiYRjuhF7ZtjsIModM8x8kxD+Xrt T5RmCAgal+Hh6/UMOaR1UyfGCN3Gm8i5Mjt5mT8/uEOmfaNKX993VNkek+k+W5FPEdyp kJGU5yJEC8yutFRV74Yrr4kMQNbZksMlhZJsit6T0DBpKJ3xGAfzQT9galFSUuIEvmPI 5+Xg== X-Received: by 10.194.205.225 with SMTP id lj1mr40055276wjc.138.1430731034984; Mon, 04 May 2015 02:17:14 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ix ([212.46.170.210]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id dg8sm19670169wjc.9.2015.05.04.02.17.13 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 04 May 2015 02:17:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from helmut by ix with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1YpCUy-0000xb-Ab; Mon, 04 May 2015 11:17:12 +0200 In-Reply-To: <5546DD4A.2080709@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Mon, 4 May 2015 05:45:30 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c05::229 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:186174 Archived-At: On Mon, May 04 2015, Dmitry Gutov wrote: > - Add the xref-find-matches command (as well as a corresponding > backend action), for project-wide string searches (hopefully with > regexp support). That probably doesn't sound as exciting as the > existing commands, but it will be "Grep in a new UI", and it will > eliminate the "select the directory" step. With a separate xref-find-matches command it would make sense for xref-find-apropos to work more like the normal apropos, with doc-strings and such. Ideally use the same UI as Elisp's apropos. > > - Further, using the same data we could implement "search and > replace", in the same way as xref-find-references can get us to > "rename". If we're going to modify something then location info better be super accurate. Helmut