Thanks Omer, Sylvain and Sebastian .
I just configured my editor to use fzf and now I can use the `:GFiles` command to perform fuzzy search on files which is probably better than tags. If anyone else is using NixOS, all I had to do was add the `fzf-vim` plugin to the vim configuration. Cheers, Matt On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 2:54 PM Ömer Sinan Ağacan <[email protected]> wrote: > > I use a file finder (fzf) for jumping to files. Because module names follow > file > paths to jump to e.g. StgToCmmUtils.Utils I usually type `<C-p>stgcmmutils` > and > fzf finds the correct file `compiler/GHC/StgToCmm/Utils.hs`. > > When generating tags I omit module names for this reason, it's easy with a > good > file finder to jump to modules already, no need to generate tags for the > modules. > > fast-tags commands I use: > > - When working on the compiler: > > $ fast-tags --no-module-tags driver ghc compiler > > - When working on the RTS: > > $ fast-tags --no-module-tags driver ghc compiler > $ ctags --append -R rts/**/*.c rts/**/*.h includes/**/*.h > > - When working on the libraries: > > $ fast-tags --no-module-tags driver ghc compiler libraries > > Ömer > > Sebastian Graf <[email protected]>, 23 Eki 2019 Çar, 16:49 tarihinde > şunu yazdı: > > > > FWIW, I'm using VSCode's fuzzy file search with Ctrl+P (and vim's > > equivalent) rather successfully. Just tried it for Hs/Utils.hs by typing > > 'hsutils.hs'. It didn't turn up as the first result in VSCode, but it in > > vim. > > > > Am Mi., 23. Okt. 2019 um 14:27 Uhr schrieb Matthew Pickering > > <[email protected]>: > >> > >> I use `fast-tags` which doesn't look at the hierarchy at all and I'm > >> not sure what the improvement would be as the names of the modules > >> would still clash. > >> > >> If there is some other recommended way to jump to a module then that > >> would also work for me. > >> > >> Matt > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 12:08 PM Sylvain Henry <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > How do you generate your tags file? It seems to be a shortcoming of the > >> > generator to not take into account the location of the definition file. > >> > > >> > > Perhaps `HsUtils` and `StgUtils` would be appropriate to > >> > disambiguate`Hs/Utils` and `StgToCmm/Utils`. > >> > > >> > We are promoting the module prefixes (`Hs`, `Stg`, `Tc`, etc.) into > >> > proper module layers (e.g. `HsUtils` becomes `GHC.Hs.Utils`) so it would > >> > be redundant to add the prefixes back. :/ > >> > > >> > Cheers, > >> > Sylvain > >> > > >> > On 23/10/2019 12:52, Matthew Pickering wrote: > >> > > Hi, > >> > > > >> > > The module rework has broken my workflow. > >> > > > >> > > Now my tags file is useless for jumping for modules as there are > >> > > multiple "Utils" and "Types" modules. Invariable I am jumping to the > >> > > wrong one. What do other people do to avoid this? > >> > > > >> > > Can we either revert these changes or give these modules unique names > >> > > to facilitate that only reliable way of navigating the code base. > >> > > Perhaps `HsUtils` and `StgUtils` would be appropriate to disambiguate > >> > > `Hs/Utils` and `StgToCmm/Utils`. > >> > > > >> > > Cheers, > >> > > > >> > > Matt > >> > > _______________________________________________ > >> > > ghc-devs mailing list > >> > > [email protected] > >> > > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > ghc-devs mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > >> _______________________________________________ > >> ghc-devs mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ghc-devs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
