Re: Generalizing find-definition

[Stefan Monnier]

>> - jump to file (among those listed in the TAGS file)
> So looking recursively inside subdirs is wrong.

The TAGS file can (and in several cases does) contain data about files
in subdirectories.  Basically "jump to file listed in TAGS" lets (or
wants to do) you jump to any file in the current project.

> So the function we are defining is 'goto-file-in-project', with the user
> prompted for the file name.

Exactly.  And I don't think ff-get-file quite does it.

> In ada-mode, the definition of 'file in project' is the combination of
> compilation-search-path with ada-spec-suffixes, ada-body-suffixes. I
> believe EDE projects are similar.

That sounds right.


        Stefan