Re: Generalizing find-definition

[Jorgen Schaefer]

On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 09:13:45 +0100
Helmut Eller <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 03 2014, Jorgen Schaefer wrote:
> 
> >> I have my own hack for this; It requires me to distinguish between
> >> variable and defun names and invoke separate keys; I hope you can
> >> remove that annoyance.
> >
> > I'm not sure how I can remove that annoyance - is that not
> > language-dependent?  What kind of functionality would you require
> > there? 
> 
> One way to solve this is to merge the list of candidates for functions
> and variables.  At least that's what we do in SLIME.  In elisp-mode
> M-. could combine the candidates of find-function and find-variable.
> Most of the time the merged list would only contain a single
> candidate.

Why would the proposed find-definition interface make a distinction
between variables and functions at all? So far, there has been none
proposed?

Does that mean that this is not an issue? That'd be great :-)

Regards,
Jorgen