Re: [9fans] Codebase navigation and using tags files in acme

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I had never heard of acme-lsp and LSP (except as a Microsoft internal 
thing) until gabi mentioned it earlier in the thread.  I'm interesting 
in playing with acme-lsp for C++.  Which LSP server do you use for C/C++ 
(I see several listed at https://langserver.org/)?

     thanks,
     Peter

On 2021-08-18 02:26, Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen 
ole.hjalmar.kristensen-at-gmail.com |9fans| wrote:
> On linux, you can run ctags -x and postprocess the file to append the 
> line number to the file name instead of having i as a separate field. 
> That way, you can locate the symbol in the tags file, and right-click 
> on the file:linenumber.
>
> Also, on linux, we have acme-lsp, which in principle works with any 
> LSP server. I have tested it with go and C/C++.
>
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 10:22 PM Ben Hancock <ben@benghancock.com 
> <mailto:ben@benghancock.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello 9fans,
>
>     I've just recently started using the acme editor and am really
>     enjoying
>     it, and trying to get the hang of the "acme way" of doing things. One
>     bit of functionality that I'm familiar with from other editors is the
>     ability to easily look up a function or symbol definition within a
>     codebase. In Emacs and vi, this is done by generating tags files
>     (etags
>     or ctags), which those editors can parse and allow you to easily
>     jump to
>     a definition of the symbol under the point/cursor.
>
>     What's the preferred method or workflow for achieving this in acme? I
>     have tried passing a selected symbol to 'g -n' in the window's tag,
>     using the Mouse-2 + Mouse-1 chord. That gets me part of the way there
>     but isn't effective if the file where the symbol is defined
>     happens to
>     be in another directory. I feel like I'm missing something.
>
>     Many thanks!
>
>     - Ben
>
>     -- 
>     Ben Hancock
>     www.benghancock.com <http://www.benghancock.com>
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