From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unified project interface Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 21:21:44 +0300 Message-ID: <83d214u4hz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <557039DB.4060607@yandex.ru> <85d21bbkqf.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <5570E86B.8070200@yandex.ru> <85iob2a2mm.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <85eglq9ujn.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <5571A0BE.9070701@yandex.ru> <858ubvc7px.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <55772D83.3000509@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1433874144 19849 80.91.229.3 (9 Jun 2015 18:22:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 18:22:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 09 20:22:16 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 1Z2OAB-00020d-37 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2015 20:22:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36496 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z2OA9-0007WS-T9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2015 14:22:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59497) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z2O9x-0007WK-Pn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2015 14:22:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z2O9t-0000q1-Eu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2015 14:22:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:35473) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z2O9t-0000pv-7D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2015 14:21:57 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NPO00L00WBBAG00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2015 21:21:55 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NPO00LOJWCJ8G20@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 09 Jun 2015 21:21:55 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <55772D83.3000509@yandex.ru> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:187140 Archived-At: > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 21:16:35 +0300 > > On 06/08/2015 04:24 AM, Stephen Leake wrote: > > > That handles a specific identifier, not all identifiers macthing "bar.*" > > (to use proper regexp syntax, rather than shell glob). > > I suppose that kind of command could be implemented on top of the > current xref API: first, find all identifiers that match this regexp > (the "apropos" action, or maybe just use the > identifier-completion-table), then find all references to each of them. > > Or probably have a new generic method, do the above in the default > implementation and allow backends to override it. Both etags and id-utils support regexp search, so a separate method sounds like a better idea, IMO.