From: Leo Butler <leo.butler@umanitoba.ca>
To: Christian Barthel <bch@online.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: etags - Word separators with xref-find-definitions
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2021 09:45:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bl6pcewx.fsf@t14.reltub.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87im0ys2kl.fsf@online.de> (Christian Barthel's message of "Sun, 25 Jul 2021 19:52:58 +0200")
Christian Barthel <bch@online.de> writes:
> On Sun, Jul 25 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>>> Is it possible to customize the xref function such that it
>>> recognize ‘schema.objectname’? Are there any variables to
>>> control the behavior of M-. ?
>>
>> You need to customize the etags.el function that is used to guess the
>> symbol at point. The function is this:
>>
>> (defun find-tag--default ()
>> (funcall (or find-tag-default-function
>> (get major-mode 'find-tag-default-function)
>> #'find-tag-default)))
>>
>> So either customizing find-tag-default-function to point to a function
>> of your choice, or making such a function local to the SQL major mode
>> by putting the property on the major-mode's symbol, should do the
>> job. You will probably need to write the function itself, though.
>
> OK, thanks so far. My first draft for this looks something like
> this:
>
> (defun find-sql-identifier ()
> (when (thing-at-point-looking-at
> "\\([.a-zA-Z0-9]*\\)" 50)
> (if (match-beginning 1)
> (buffer-substring (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1))
> "")))
> (put major-mode 'find-tag-default-function 'find-sql-identifier)
Thanks for these pointers, Eli and Christian. I was able to fix a
similar problem I had with `xref-find-definitions' when trying to use it
with latex-mode to look up bibtex citations.
Leo
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-25 8:56 etags - Word separators with xref-find-definitions Christian Barthel
2021-07-25 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-25 17:52 ` Christian Barthel
2021-07-25 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-26 14:45 ` Leo Butler [this message]
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