Re: Generalizing find-definition

[Helmut Eller]

On Mon, Nov 03 2014, Jorgen Schaefer wrote:

>> I have my own hack for this; It requires me to distinguish between
>> variable and defun names and invoke separate keys; I hope you can
>> remove that annoyance.
>
> I'm not sure how I can remove that annoyance - is that not
> language-dependent?  What kind of functionality would you require there? 

One way to solve this is to merge the list of candidates for functions
and variables.  At least that's what we do in SLIME.  In elisp-mode
M-. could combine the candidates of find-function and find-variable.
Most of the time the merged list would only contain a single candidate.

Helmut