From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Tell xref to find definitions in Emacs' source code? Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:42:41 -0800 Message-ID: <87375gtzny.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <871sljru4x.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <54b53509-8093-7674-bbfb-406eaedd9004@yandex.ru> <87375yj17h.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <877eusptq7.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510688721 28659 195.159.176.226 (14 Nov 2017 19:45:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 19:45:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 14 20:45:14 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eEh8y-0006vh-0N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 20:45:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33331 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEh95-00082F-76 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:45:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51484) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEh8d-00081u-I1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:44:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEh8Z-0005Ro-7M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:44:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=56367 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEh8Z-0005QX-0N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:44:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eEh8L-0004pc-R0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 20:44:33 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:fPDTxtRovgHo5tinI66Ua69AlqU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114877 Archived-At: Narendra Joshi writes: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> Dmitry Gutov writes: >> >>> On 10/31/17 9:31 PM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >>> >>>> Has anyone convinced xref to look up elisp definitions in a local git >>>> clone of the Emacs source code, instead of the installed files? I'm >>>> looking at building a tags table in the source directory, and then >>>> adding a function to `elisp-xref-find-def-functions' that would try to >>>> use the tags table to find a symbol in my git clone. >>>> >>>> Does anyone have anything like this on hand? >>> >>> The easiest way to do that is to build that clone and run Emacs from it. >>> >>> Like ./src/emacs. >>> >>> The alternative is to add xref-etags-mode to emacs-lisp-mode, and M-x >>> visit-tags-table. Then you'll just use etags. >>> >>> Not sure if elisp-xref-find-def-functions can provide a >>> straightforward alternative. >> >> Okay, thanks for the tips. I'll probably just do it the easy way and run >> Emacs from the source directory. > Or you can create a symbolic link (say ~/.local/bin/emacs) that points > to $EMACS_SOURCE_DIR/src/emacs. That's how I have been using it. Okay, good suggestion!