From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to define xref-find-definitions for a new mode?
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:41:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wov01opj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tvq4psbc.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Fri, 15 Jun 2018 06:49:43 +0200)
> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 06:49:43 +0200
>
> >> > Are you sure it doesn't work already? E.g., if \label is tagged, then
> >> > "M-." on the tag's name at \ref should go to the label's definition.
> >>
> >> Well, apparently it doesn't without the TAGS file. And even with it,
> >> I couldn't make it to work. Also, amsrefs is not suppported.
> >
> > Then my suggestion would be to extend etags to support that. That way
> > you won't be starting from scratch.
>
> Well, in that case I'll pass for now. Etags is written in C, which
> I don't speak very well. (Learning it better would be great, but
> I don't have enough time for that now.)
You could instead file bug reports with reproducible recipes and with
requests for what should 'etags' the program add to TAGS to support
your features. Then someone else could implement these changes in
'etags'. It's known to have happened, including fairly recently.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-15 7:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-09 6:46 How to define xref-find-definitions for a new mode? Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-09 8:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-09 9:10 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-09 9:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-11 3:22 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-11 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-15 4:49 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-15 7:41 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-06-15 8:59 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-12 13:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
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