GNU bug report logs - #53749
29.0.50; [PATCH] Xref backend for TeX buffers

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: David Fussner <dfussner <at> googlemail.com>

Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2022 15:10:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 29.0.50

Fixed in version 31.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: David Fussner <dfussner <at> googlemail.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 53749 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ikumi Keita <ikumi <at> ikumi.que.jp>, Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>, stefankangas <at> gmail.com, Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#53749: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Xref backend for TeX buffers
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:02:29 +0100

Thanks, Dmitry.

> Last I checked, semantic-symref-filepattern-alist had explicit entries
> only for languages whose auto-mode-alist entries were deemed too complex
> to parse out the matching extensions from the corresponding regexps.
>
> Or had other difficulties like the c-or-c++-mode dispatcher.

That makes sense, and clarifies a few things for me. I guess TeX has
the "plain-tex or latex or context or ams-tex" dispatcher and also
in-tree vs. AUCTeX mode names, both of which at least for the moment
make semantic-symref-filepattern-alist seem a better fit.

Best,

David.

On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 at 01:09, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> wrote:
>
> On 22/04/2024 20:16, Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the
> Swiss army knife of text editors wrote:
> >> (I'm wondering whether it might be useful, for example, for
> >> semantic-symref-derive-find-filepatterns to add extensions from
> >> auto-mode-alist even when some extensions are found in
> >> semantic-symref-filepattern-alist.)
> > Assuming we can get good enough results from `auto-mode-alist and
> > friends, I think we'd want to mark `semantic-symref-filepattern-alist`
> > as obsolete.
> > But before that, we need to check the assumption.
>
> Last I checked, semantic-symref-filepattern-alist had explicit entries
> only for languages whose auto-mode-alist entries were deemed too complex
> to parse out the matching extensions from the corresponding regexps.
>
> Or had other difficulties like the c-or-c++-mode dispatcher.
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