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bug#58431: 29.0.50; [Eglot] Add "breadcrumb.el" feature based on imenu.e
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João Távora |
Subject: |
bug#58431: 29.0.50; [Eglot] Add "breadcrumb.el" feature based on imenu.el/project.el services |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Oct 2022 10:17:20 +0100 |
Hello,
This request for a "breadcrumb" feature started in Eglot's bug tracker:
https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot/discussions/988
Put it short, a breadcrumb is a summarized indication of the full path
to the current location of point within a source file. So if I have a
file 'baz.cpp' inside a directory 'bars' of a project directory 'foo'
and that file contains:
class Baz {
int quux() {
return 42; // point here
}
// or here
};
Then the breadcrumb would read:
foo > bars > baz.cpp > Baz > quux
If I move my point to outside quux(), the breadcrumb should now read:
foo > bars > baz.cpp > Baz
The preferred location of this breadcrumb readout should be the
headerline.
In the original Eglot request, users are requesting this UI feature for
the Eglot LSP client. But this doesn't have any LSP-specific
interactions. It can and should be done entirely by using the services
provided by imenu.el and project.el.
Eglot already integrates with Imenu, so as soon as this hypothetical
breadcrumb.el is in place, then Eglot users can take advantage of it.
This is similar to which-func.el, which displays the trailing element of
the breadcrumb in the headerline. Perhaps the breadcrumb feature can be
thought of as an augmentation of which-func.el's functionality. I don't
have a strong opinion there.
João
PS: Eli, I'm CCing you to underline this as just an example of a UI
feature that is requested for Eglot, but belongs somewhere else. In
this case, I believe there is 0 additional integration needed in
eglot.el: it can be realized independently of the backend which feeds
into Imenu (perhaps tree-sitter?) and project.el.
- bug#58431: 29.0.50; [Eglot] Add "breadcrumb.el" feature based on imenu.el/project.el services,
João Távora <=