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 16:22:07 -0700 Message-ID: <87po92rjhc.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <871sljru4x.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <878tfryqyp.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> <874lqfyqpd.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1509492292 29308 195.159.176.226 (31 Oct 2017 23:24:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 23:24:52 +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 00:24:39 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 1e9ftb-0006Kt-HW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2017 00:24:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47694 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e9fti-0003iP-Qs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:24:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33061) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e9ftA-0003i9-PB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:24:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e9ft6-0008Q5-Ej for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:24:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=42691 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e9ft6-0008Pp-6v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:24:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e9fsq-0001va-S1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2017 00:23:48 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:/qC+yrfdPeuBW3F+W0x+ubXi1X4= 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:114712 Archived-At: Nick Dokos writes: > Nick Dokos writes: > >> Eric Abrahamsen writes: >> >>> 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? >>> >> >> Not directly an answer, but have you tried cscope? The emacs interface >> is xcscope.el and can be found at https://github.com/dkogan/xcscope.el. > > Never mind: for some unfathomable reason, I thought it could index .el files - > it cannot. No worries, thanks for the pointer!