Re: Tagging Fortran variables

[Joel Reicher <joel.reicher@gmail.com>]

Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> writes:

> Hi, part of my work is researches/troubleshooting in a big 
> collection of old Fortran code files. I want to be able to use 
> the xref tools to help me. However, it seems that etags does not 
> tag Fortran variables, which 99% of the time is what I am 
> interested in. It looks like there is a way to tag anything you 
> want using regexps, so I was looking at the fortran.el code to 
> see if maybe I could find the magic regexp for this. But there 
> is a lot going on here in fortran.el that I don't understand yet 
> and I am wondering if somebody might be able to help me figure 
> this out.

Have you tried using xref in eglot? It will attempt to use the 
fortls fortran language server.

(I haven't tried this myself, but I've had good experiences with 
eglot and language servers in general.)

Cheers,

        - Joel