From: "Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
Cc: 65520@debbugs.gnu.org, Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#65520: 30.0.50; [FR Xref] Project-wide operations
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2023 07:22:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r0nqe5to.fsf@Mini.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <929f86c4-edb6-46f5-f24c-3b46054a0ad4@gutov.dev> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Fri, 25 Aug 2023 19:17:14 +0300")
Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:
> On 25/08/2023 10:03, Gerd Möllmann wrote:
>> My mental model is like so: I'm in a Git repo (Emacs), which is, I think
>> also a project in the project.el sense. This project contains differnt
>> sets of files for which information is available using different
>> backends (Eglot, Etags, others depending on the kind of project). What
>> U'd like to have is something on the level of such a project, if you
>> know what mean. That is, M-. would take all available info for such a
>> project into account.
>
> One possible alternative is to treat this situation not like a new
> feature, and write a specialized new Xref backend which would collect
> both the info from Lisp and from TAGS when you are anywhere inside the
> Emacs sources. It shouldn't take too many lines either.
>
> The current existing alternative for that, like Eli pointed out, is
> xref-etags-mode: it disables Elisp's own backend and just uses TAGS
> everywhere ('make tags' in Emacs generates tags for Lisp functions as
> well). With the natural downside that you would need to regen tags
> manually for both types of files now. And that you're using Eglot
> instead ;-(.
Yeah ;-). That's not what I was looking for.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-25 6:49 bug#65520: 30.0.50; [FR Xref] Project-wide operations Gerd Möllmann
2023-08-25 7:03 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-08-25 7:48 ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-25 16:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-08-25 8:26 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-08-25 16:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-08-26 5:22 ` Gerd Möllmann [this message]
2023-08-25 16:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-08-26 5:31 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-08-27 0:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-08-27 6:32 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-08-25 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
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