From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: 22947@debbugs.gnu.org, rogers@modulargenetics.com
Subject: bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 16:59:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83egbhjc1v.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c60804f4-1b9b-4661-b4b9-e1c567587fb0@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Fri, 11 Mar 2016 14:46:25 +0200)
> Cc: 22947@debbugs.gnu.org, rogers@modulargenetics.com
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 14:46:25 +0200
>
> On 03/11/2016 10:04 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > Etags never had these features, so you are asking for enhancements. I
> > suggest to file a separate wishlist bug report with these requests,
> > and maybe Someone will implement them at some point.
>
> There's nothing to implement in Emacs, both of these scenarios should
> work already.
I said "etags", not "emacs".
> And allowing the output of qualified+unqualified, in etags, doesn't seem
> like a huge job to me.
For languages where qualified tags are already created, maybe.
(C-like languages might be not so easy, due to the state machines they
use.) But are we sure all languages do?
> > Note that adding such a feature would mean extending the generation of
> > class-qualified names to all the languages which have a notion of a
> > class or a package, so it's not a small job, and requires to have a
> > good understanding of many languages.
>
> We can perfectly well choose to support this feature only for a few
> languages. It's better than nothing.
I'm not sure "better than nothing" is good enough.
Anyway, I don't really understand what we are arguing about.
> Here's the relevant excerpt from ctags's manpage:
Thanks, but why do you think I don't have it installed?
> Ultimately, it's your choice, of course.
Volunteers are free to beat me to it, if they have an itch to scratch.
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-08 18:27 bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags Bob Rogers
2016-03-09 1:52 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-09 2:43 ` Bob Rogers
2016-03-10 13:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-10 13:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-10 14:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-10 14:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-10 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-10 15:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-10 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-11 1:45 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-11 8:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-11 12:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-11 14:59 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-03-12 1:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-12 7:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-12 12:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-12 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-12 12:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-12 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-10 19:07 ` Bob Rogers
2016-03-10 20:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-11 18:08 ` Bob Rogers
2016-03-11 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-11 19:05 ` Bob Rogers
2016-03-12 0:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-04-26 12:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-26 17:00 ` Bob Rogers
2022-04-27 12:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-11 1:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
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