GNU bug report logs - #32510
xref-find-definitions should return file names, too

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic <at> ludovic-brenta.org>

Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:33:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Found in version 26.1

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic <at> ludovic-brenta.org>
To: <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: xref-find-definitions should return file names, too
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:32:21 +0100

Package: emacs
Version: 26.1
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

It would be nice if xref-find-definitions returned files in
addition to language-specific "definitions".  For example:

M-. foo-bar.adb RET

should open the file foo-bar.adb (wherever it is in the
potentially complex directory structure of the project) and
leave point at the beginning of the file.

This is a feature of find-tag but find-tag is now deprecated
in favor of xref-find-definitions; so this feature is missing
and xref-find-definitions is not yet a complete replacement for
find-tag.

Thanks for consideration.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.
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