Re: Tell xref to find definitions in Emacs' source code?

[Nick Dokos]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Has anyone convinced xref to look up elisp definitions in a local git
> clone of the Emacs source code, instead of the installed files? I'm
> looking at building a tags table in the source directory, and then
> adding a function to `elisp-xref-find-def-functions' that would try to
> use the tags table to find a symbol in my git clone.
>
> Does anyone have anything like this on hand?
>

Not directly an answer, but have you tried cscope? The emacs interface
is xcscope.el and can be found at https://github.com/dkogan/xcscope.el.

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Nick