Re: Generalizing find-definition

[Stefan Monnier]

> For "goto definition" and "show uses", ada-mode needs the simple word at
> point (no dots; 'baz' in the example), together with the file name,
> line, and column. "ada-identifier-at-point" only returns the simple
> word, not all the information needed by "goto definition". Python needs
> the file name, buffer text, line and column; it does not have an
> implementation of "identifier-at-point", apparently.

That's OK.  We already agreed that find-definition-function should
accept a buffer-position as argument (from which it can extract any
identifier it likes, if that's what it needs).

> For "completion", Python also apparently needs the same information as
> for "goto definition". Ada mode will probably need the same info as for
> "goto definition" as well.

Completion doesn't need the identifier at point, AFAICT.


        Stefan