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From: Ben Hancock <ben@benghancock.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] Codebase navigation and using tags files in acme
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 13:22:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e0c8f85b-1d1a-114f-f5f1-fa0204e814b9@benghancock.com> (raw)

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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             reply	other threads:[~2021-08-17 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-17 20:22 Ben Hancock [this message]
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
2021-08-20 23:08       ` a
2021-08-20 23:31         ` Steve Simon

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