From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: etags: M-. jump to the tag(called func), but then how can i jump BACK(the calling line)? Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 08:39:02 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85r7bonqpl.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <1126436508.461480.28080@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <85d5nfe3oy.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85acih4cmy.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1126939825 9907 80.91.229.2 (17 Sep 2005 06:50:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 06:50:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 17 08:50:23 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EGWVl-0000an-7h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 08:49:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EGWVi-0000WO-C4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:49:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!217.73.144.44.MISMATCH!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:211WRS8KczseGd5lWqdnT/k975s= Original-Lines: 56 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Sep 2005 08:39:03 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 508a84a1.newsread4.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=I:_n>8N^OFjEFMTLjj\foo:ejgIfPPlddjW\KbG]kaMhFYk:AnJB[CmXn3_L^?kFUn1_LiI6ENVam3>5MOK`oD^XMnNkmbWoWITGh6mh Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:133955 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:29513 Archived-At: Ilya Zakharevich writes: > [A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to > David Kastrup > ], who wrote in article <85acih4cmy.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>: >> >> > This is a gaping hole in the Emacs UI. I wrote a package, >> >> > imenu-go.el, which behaves "as expected". > >> >> Hardly. > >> This means the "gaping hole". > > Sorry that I was not clear enough: I understood this. > >> > a) Can't parse your last paragraph; >> >> It was just the online help. > > Kevin Rodgers provided a very nice roundup; can it replace this > cryptic paragraph? > >> So you want to claim a deficiency in Emacs because you don't want to >> try out the function and keybinding which it provides for that >> purpose? > > Again, sorry that I was not clear enough. On the contrary, I'm very > glad that finally, after more than a decade of bitching (while having > the working code available!) this feature is finally available in the > standard distribution. A lot of thanks for including it! You could have cut your decade of bitching short. The function was provided in 1998, more than 7 years ago. > All that I said is that > > a) I have no incentive to check whether the Emacs 21.4 > implementation is sane; and Well, then you should also have no incentive to bitch about it. > b) that my prior experience does not allow for a lot of hope in > "a" (I remember there was *some* tricky stuff to code in imenu-go; > but the only thing which immeditely jumps to mind is not related > to return-back functionality; so, contrary to what I wrote, it is > quite possible that there is no pitfall to avoid...). So you reserve the right for bitching without checking whether it is warranted? > Hope this helps, I don't see how this helps with anything except giving a good idea how serious to take any of your bitching in future. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum