dumb-jump VS tide

TLDW It describes the dumb-jump emacs package: https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump

I use lsp for C++, but for jump to definition I like dumb jump, because it works.

Oh, I forgot to mention, I have also found dumb-jump to work pretty well for Xcode projects, with no configuration.

I don't really have any trouble using Emacs on the "modern" C++ codebases that I'm working on. I've tried lsp-mode and eglot with clangd but found that really all I need is a little bit of elisp to call clang-format, dumb-jump (<https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump>) to jump to definition, and project-compile to build the project and collect warnings/errors into a buffer.

> 2. No language server (apparently it's just impossible due to the way the language works). Tbh, I'd be happy with just "Go to definition" but alas, no-can-do!

Emacs' dumb-jump appears to have some basic support for go to definition: https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump/blob/master/dumb-jump...

But out of curiosity, what is the issue from a technical point of view?

For jumping between function definitions I use dumb-jump, which usually just works. I configure dumb-jump to use ag for its searching which makes it work very quickly.

Mark ring may be what you want. If you want to jump around a code base, Dumb Jump is great: https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump

dumb-jump: another tool based on ripgrep, this one defines regexes for what definitions look like in a bunch of languages. This gives you a primitive jump-to-def functionality without any setup (except installing ripgrep). The pros and cons are roughly the same as rg.el and deadgrep: you might not jump to exactly the thing you want (if there are multiple choices, you can select the definition you prefer), but it requires no setup and is pretty fast.

I recommend https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump

While I have no idea about tags, I want to say that you may find something as simple as dumb-jump[1] does what you want most of the time.

[1] https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump

How does it compare with Tide? https://github.com/ananthakumaran/tide

I got to try my hands on Typescript in Emacs using tide, and I loved the autocompletion enabled by type-inference. But even besides type-inference, there's even the autocompletion for previously defined local variables that exists in other language tools including anaconda for python, which I don't see in my setup of SLIME/emacs.

You should try tide for TypeScript projects.

off topic: I've found tide-mode[0] to be pretty good to use with typescript on Emacs

[0] https://github.com/ananthakumaran/tide

Is there a way to autogen doxygen doc for C/C++? At least templates with the parameters types and return type? I do this with tide in Emacs with Typescript for example and it's pretty useful.

Anyone got any experience with this package? I have got it running but the default key binding to jump to a definition is not working at all. Stated here (https://github.com/ananthakumaran/tide) M-. should work but that seems to be already bound to something else.

Then I started with TypeScript and I was both amazed and saddened by it. For regular TS files, .ts it was amazing. The spacemacs typescript-mode was even better than rjsx-mode, all the types are shown perfectly in the bottom bar, autocomplete, auto-import... Everything. And thanks to tide. The sad part is: there is no tsx-mode, to write our .tsx files, we have to use web-mode. Don't get me wrong, this is a great mode, but React + Typescript were not the goals back then.