From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about xref and adding "find all references" button to built-in help
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 07:47:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM9PR09MB497715ED4F0B19E18473881996A09@AM9PR09MB4977.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d4513ef0-4a12-3d2c-9429-cdf356b806f5@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Mon, 20 Sep 2021 02:32:42 +0300")
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Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
> Hi!
>
> On 19.09.2021 23:17, Arthur Miller wrote:
>> If I would like to add a link as there is one in Helpful, to find all references
>> for a current symbol in help-mode buffer; which xref functionality should I look
>> at? Is there a ready made function already, or do I have to write something?
>
> We have functionality to searching for references in the current project (also
> works when inside an Emacs sources checkout) and throughout the load-path.
As extensive as helpful's help-ref? He searches through each and every source
file found in the load-path. Where do I look, can you give me some pointer I can
start playing with? Or should I do build my own search?
> But you probably want this to work in installed Emacs as well?
What do you mean by "installed Emacs"? Emacs without sources? Sorry, I just woke
up, have to get that coffein going up :).
What about to just have a keyboard shortcuts; say 'R', instead of link. With
source code displayed it already looks a bit crouded. I think helpfuls buffer
looks a bit busy with all the links.
I could imagine living with just a shortcut and maybe a context menu item.
I attached a screeshots of helpful and built-in help with my yserdays patch both
showing source code for the comparison.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-19 20:17 Question about xref and adding "find all references" button to built-in help Arthur Miller
2021-09-19 23:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-20 5:47 ` Arthur Miller [this message]
2021-09-20 12:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-20 20:52 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-20 23:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-21 10:32 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-21 14:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
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