How to navigate around the source tree?

[Matthew Pickering]

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 <omeragacan at gmail.com> 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 <sgraf1337 at gmail.com>, 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 <matthewtpickering at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> 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 <sylvain at haskus.fr> 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
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