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, 31 Oct 2017 17:24:02 -0700 Message-ID: <87375yj17h.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <871sljru4x.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <54b53509-8093-7674-bbfb-406eaedd9004@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1509496002 16652 195.159.176.226 (1 Nov 2017 00:26:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 00:26:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 01 01:26:35 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 1e9grY-0003P5-Ni for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2017 01:26:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47808 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e9grf-0002oh-Uh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:26:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41880) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e9gr9-0002oZ-D0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:26:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e9gr6-0002uT-2l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:26:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=55077 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e9gr5-0002tN-RU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:26:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e9gqn-0007fO-5r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2017 01:25:45 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:TxjDOzbaclOc7Jhwns5iVCsNMDI= 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:114714 Archived-At: 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. Eric