Hi Claus,
On 06/15/2010 05:57 PM, Claus Reinke wrote:
If you go this route, I will shamelessly promote hothasktags instead
of ghci. It generates proper tags for qualified imports.
What do you mean by "proper" here?
I think Luke means that if you use qualified names then hothasktags can
give you better location information than current ghci ctags.
I discussed this with Luke before and I sumarrized what would need to be
done to imporove ghci ctags to support qualified names better. Here is
the post which explains it with an example:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/73116
With this addition, I believe, ghci tags would at least as good as
hothasktags. That said I do not try hothasktags. Do hothasktags do
analyzes deep enough that the information provided is always correct?
I did not go to add this to ghci ctags since I barely ever use qualified
names so it is a non-issue for me. Also propper support for scoped tags
would include some vim macro which (on ^] key-press) tries to find a
qualified name first and only after a failure it would try to find plain
name without qualification. So if one wants to use it well he/she needs
first select the name in visual mode and only then pres ^]. (Or one
should use full ex commands for navigation like :tselect.)
but in Vim 7.2 the help file still says
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/tagsrch.html#tags-file-format
The only other field currently recognized by Vim is "file:"
(with an empty value). It is used for a static tag.
If Vim somehow started supporting that extended file:<scope>
format without updating its docs, that would be good to know
(what version of Vim? where is this documented?).
I did not find it documented but it looks like a filename can be used in
place of <scope>. If provided then the validity of the tag is limited to
the filename.
Your suggested use-case for such a feature is interesting, but
we're getting into an area where "live" calls to a scope resolution
tool might make more sense.
Och I would like to have a "vim" with full incremental parser for
Haskell ... with things like AST being drawn in a pane, intellisense and
completion on symbols but also on grammar/syntax, re-factoring options
and all the goodies this could provide. It will not be a vim any more.
Probably won't happen in my lifetime either but I can dream :)
Peter.
PS: Thanks for your vim support.
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