Re: semantic-symref-symbol returns "Wrong argument type"

[Nicolas Bock <nicolasbock@gmail.com>]

Thanks for all the pointers. I will dig a little deeper....

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:
> On 07/22/2015 10:53 PM, Nicolas Bock wrote:
>
>> That's what I suspected, but what I don't understand is why it doesn't
>> use 'grep' as a fallback. That should be language agnostic, I would
>> think.
>
>
> Like I said, it could use Grep, but first it wants to determine what to
> search for (the "symbol"), and that's normally the "current tag", in buffers
> supported by Semantic.
>
> Regarding Grep, though, there's no entry for Fortran in
> semantic-symref-filepattern-alist.
>
> If you're using the current master (or can install it), you could try M-x
> xref-find-regexp instead. Or M-x xref-find-references.
>
>> The backtrace unfortunately does not help me much either:
>
>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument syntax-table-p nil)
>>    set-syntax-table(nil)
>
>
> This is from macro-expansion of `with-syntax-table'. As you can see, the
> argument is semantic-lex-syntax-table, which is apparently nil.
>
>>    semantic-ctxt-current-symbol-default(nil)
>
>
> ^ That's the function, inside which you should be looking.