Re: Question about xref and adding "find all references" button to built-in help

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 21.09.2021 13:32, Arthur Miller wrote:

> > Or perhaps this feature will be mostly used by people who already have an Emacs
> > sources checked out anyway.
> User have to have sources installed; I don't plan on parsing elc files, it was
> more of a wild thought, but to get somthing going, user would need to have
> sources installed in some way; compressed, uncompressed or dev sources. I don't
> know though if I have to decompress sources myself or Emacs does that
> auto. Nobody cared to answer any of questions I asked in the patch proposal for
> the source inlined in help buffers.

When we're talking about find-definition, it might be already taken care 
of by find-func and tramp-archive (someone needs to test, though).

But as far as "find references" goes, we're scanning the sources with 
external programs. There is 'zgrep', but I'm not sure how to set up its 
automatic use best.

> > Ah, I see it now. You wanted to show the "Find all references" button printed by
> > Helpful.
>
> Yeah. But without the button :). You were thinkng on the presentation of
> results?

I figured that's what the screenshots were about.

> For there I just meant a buffer with a list of links or buttons, I
> don't know what else. Would there be some better option?

A button somewhere near the end might be a good idea. I don't know -- 
it's a fairly arbitrary choice that you could start with the rest of the 
work first, get it installed, and then post a question on emacs-devel 
(or wherever) whether people want to see the button as well.