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bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions doesn't; bug?
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Winston |
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bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions doesn't; bug? |
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Sat, 9 Sep 2017 18:40 EDT |
[Emacs 25.2; it looks (to me) like a regexp match pattern issue in
xref.el, not an O/S issue.]
Today I noticed the message about find-tag being (supposedly)
obsoleted by xref-find-definitions as of Emacs version 25.1, so I tried
the new command. Unfortunately, the new one failed completely on an
entire class of function definitions.
After some experimenting, it appears that the problem may be that
xref-find-definitions only works when the function definition is of the
form: name spacing* '('.
The C code in question uses macros around function arguments in its
definitions. E.g.,
name _ARGS1(type,variable)
find-tag (and etags) work just fine with that, and such function
definition lines appear in the TAGS file (as they should), but
xref-find-definitions fails to find such function tags, saying instead
"No definitions found for: name".
Changing the function definition line to
name (type variable)
as a test, re-running etags, and reloading TAGS, xref-find-definitions
found the tag and went to it.
So, xref-find-definitions is not yet a complete replacement for
find-tag. Since etags puts such lines in TAGS and xref-find-definitions
is unable to match up the name with the tag, it looks like a bug /
deficiency in xref-find-definitions.
-WBE
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions doesn't; bug?,
Winston <=
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions doesn't; bug?, Drew Adams, 2017/09/09
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions doesn't; bug?, Dmitry Gutov, 2017/09/09
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Winston, 2017/09/09
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Dmitry Gutov, 2017/09/10
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/09/10
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Dmitry Gutov, 2017/09/10
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/09/10
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Dmitry Gutov, 2017/09/11
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/09/11
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Dmitry Gutov, 2017/09/12