From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-lisp-mode and find-tag
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:30:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvegyjr6xy.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Wxxzc-0002oB-Bg@fencepost.gnu.org> (Alfred M. Szmidt's message of "Fri, 20 Jun 2014 08:32:32 -0400")
> Is there some specific reason why M-. (find-tag) doesn't work by
> default in emacs-lisp files? There seems to be little point in using
> etags seeing that emacs already knows where the source is of a given
> function.
Because currently M-. doesn't mean "jump to definition" but "jump to
definition according to TAGS file".
I think it would be good to provide a generic M-. (and M-*, ..) binding
that several backends (etags, symbol-file, ...) can then use.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-20 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-20 12:32 emacs-lisp-mode and find-tag Alfred M. Szmidt
2014-06-20 13:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-20 15:52 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2014-06-20 14:30 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-06-20 15:52 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2014-06-20 16:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-20 16:52 ` Josh
2014-06-20 17:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-20 18:53 ` Ivan Kanis
2014-06-20 19:07 ` Josh
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2014-06-20 20:22 Barry OReilly
2014-06-21 1:08 ` Stefan Monnier
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