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

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:

> Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Never mind: for some unfathomable reason, I thought it could index .el files -
> it cannot.

No worries, thanks for the pointer!