Re: xref-find-matches and stuff

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 05/11/2015 04:01 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> I mostly agree.  Nevertheless, as mentioned in an earlier example, etags
> misses symbols.  Typically, all but one of the symbols created by
> "complex" declarations such `cl-defstruct' or `define-derived-mode'.
> xref/elisp does get those right, but misses other.

For cl-defstruct accessors and predicates (and even constructors), 
find-func knows which file to find them in, but reliably fails to find 
them inside that file.

Though that should be easier to fix than to make etags recognize them.