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From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <ole.hjalmar.kristensen@gmail.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Codebase navigation and using tags files in acme
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 12:55:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHqDL_-4Znn=c36ymN48i-+CaQxXYs=U2Ym99kOUN1v_QhkqjQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <848-1629345074-357948@sneakemail.com>

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I use clangd. Works very well in general. Using it is simple, you launch
clangd via acme-lsp like this:
acme-lsp -server '(\.h)|(\.cc)$:/home/ole/bin/clangd_10.0.0/bin/clangd
--clang-tidy --background-index --cross-file-rename' -workspaces
/home/ole/xcomtest

On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 5:51 AM <6o205zd02@sneakemail.com> wrote:

> 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> 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
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-20 10:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-17 20:22 Ben Hancock
2021-08-18  6:52 ` sirjofri
2021-08-18  9:12   ` Richard Miller
2021-08-18  9:17     ` Gabriel Diaz Lopez de la Llave via 9fans
2021-08-18  9:25       ` Rob Pike
2021-08-18 16:01         ` Ben Hancock
2021-08-19 11:44         ` Maurizio Boriani
2021-08-19 11:49           ` Gorka Guardiola
2021-08-19 18:59           ` unobe
2021-08-19 19:00             ` unobe
2021-08-19 20:41               ` Rob Pike
2021-08-18  9:13   ` Nick Owens
2021-08-18  9:26 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2021-08-19  3:51   ` 6o205zd02
2021-08-19  7:29     ` igor
2021-08-20 10:55     ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen [this message]
2021-08-20 23:08       ` a
2021-08-20 23:31         ` Steve Simon

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