Re: IDE

[Nix]

[Catching up on this thread...]

On 12 Oct 2015, Drew Adams verbalised:

>> > 3. Jumping around the project code and resources.
>> > Jumping to around the project code and used libraries. Another
>> > thing is jumping to/from resources (for example aspects can be
>> > defined in an XML file and IDE could allow to jump to matching
>> > classes).
>> 
>> Do you mean "jump to the thing at point"? That sounds complicated,
>> and support for different "things" will have to be implemented
>> separately.
>
> Sounds like good ol' Emacs TAGS, to me (or across-project Imenu).
> Of course, the limiting factor is TAGS files that support such
> "things".  But the infrastructure is there for it.  People have
> been using Emacs TAGS files to "jump to the [definition of the]
> thing at point" for 40 years.

btw, recent GNU GLOBAL has now shifted to using a SQLite database for
its tags files, which makes it hugely more extensible, in theory, and
also makes it possible that Emacs could (once the modules code lands so
we could write a glue layer to SQLite) directly extract info from it.

Raw TAGS files are more or less unsuitable for anything but C and Lisp,
and are pretty poor even for that (e.g. you can only jump from uses to
definitions, the definition can only be in one place...)

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