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The Future of SCIP
I have been using https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump to quickly jump to definitions. LSP is hit or miss; in some languages, it works great, while in others, the implementation is not so good. I have been thinking about a middle ground based on Tree-sitter. GitHub uses Tree-sitter to power code navigation, but unfortunately, I can't find anything good that I can use offline. Why is there no ctags equivalent powered by Tree-sitter?
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Jump around huge code bases in Emacs without LSP or TAGS
TLDW It describes the dumb-jump emacs package: https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump
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Scala support
I use lsp for C++, but for jump to definition I like dumb jump, because it works.
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How to develop Xcode project in emacs?
Oh, I forgot to mention, I have also found dumb-jump to work pretty well for Xcode projects, with no configuration.
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Closing 10% of all Emacs bugs
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.
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Crystal Programming Language
> 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?
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How I use Emacs to write Perl
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.
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Trying to get "better-jumper" work.
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
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Navigating an enormous code base
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.
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Does anyone use Emacs to development big Golang project like Kubernetes?
I recommend https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump
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jacktasia/dumb-jump is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of dumb-jump is Emacs Lisp.
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