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From: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
To: 58431@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: eliz@gnu.org
Subject: bug#58431: 29.0.50; [Eglot] Add "breadcrumb.el" feature based on imenu.el/project.el services
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 10:17:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czayra73.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)

Hello,

This request for a "breadcrumb" feature started in Eglot's bug tracker:
   
   https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot/discussions/988

Put it short, a breadcrumb is a summarized indication of the full path
to the current location of point within a source file.  So if I have a
file 'baz.cpp' inside a directory 'bars' of a project directory 'foo'
and that file contains:

    class Baz {
          int quux() {
              return 42; // point here
          }

          // or here
    };

Then the breadcrumb would read:

    foo > bars > baz.cpp > Baz > quux

If I move my point to outside quux(), the breadcrumb should now read:

    foo > bars > baz.cpp > Baz

The preferred location of this breadcrumb readout should be the
headerline.

In the original Eglot request, users are requesting this UI feature for
the Eglot LSP client.  But this doesn't have any LSP-specific
interactions.  It can and should be done entirely by using the services
provided by imenu.el and project.el.

Eglot already integrates with Imenu, so as soon as this hypothetical
breadcrumb.el is in place, then Eglot users can take advantage of it.

This is similar to which-func.el, which displays the trailing element of
the breadcrumb in the headerline.  Perhaps the breadcrumb feature can be
thought of as an augmentation of which-func.el's functionality.  I don't
have a strong opinion there.

João

PS: Eli, I'm CCing you to underline this as just an example of a UI
feature that is requested for Eglot, but belongs somewhere else.  In
this case, I believe there is 0 additional integration needed in
eglot.el: it can be realized independently of the backend which feeds
into Imenu (perhaps tree-sitter?) and project.el.














             reply	other threads:[~2022-10-11  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-11  9:17 João Távora [this message]
2022-10-11 15:38 ` bug#58431: 29.0.50; [Eglot] Add "breadcrumb.el" feature based on imenu.el/project.el services Yuan Fu
2022-10-11 23:50   ` João Távora
2022-10-12  6:22     ` Yuan Fu
2022-10-12  8:30       ` João Távora
2023-05-12 13:09     ` João Távora
2023-05-17 21:31       ` Yuan Fu
2023-04-08 19:47 ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-18 18:10 ` bug#58431: 29.0.50; [Eglot] Add "breadcrumb.el" feature based, " Adam Porter
2023-04-18 18:26   ` João Távora
2023-04-20  4:27     ` Adam Porter
2023-04-20  9:22       ` João Távora

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