Re: More precise tag following

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jan 28, 2007, 13:15 UTC
Message-ID: <20070128131559.GA31217@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070128023958.GF9897@thunk.org>

On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:39:58PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:

> For emacs users, it would even be better to tie it into emacs.  That
> way you're already at the line number looking at the source code when

I agree that connecting it with the editor might be sensible; I'm not likely to work on an emacs version, though. :)

One of my other long-standing annoyances with using "raw" git-blame is that it shows me a bunch of commits, but then I have to open a new window and cut and paste the hash to actually _see_ the commit. That's why I think something like tig makes sense, where you can jump between different views very easily. An editor extension should be able to do the same thing.

> course, scrolling to the right part of the file is a pain.  So
> building it into the editor is not only convenient, but it avoids the
> psychological effects that could make it seem slow because how long it
> takes to fill the attribution for these first bits:

Agreed, I noticed that as well (especially because the enormous font and spacing choices of GTK made sure you could only see the first couple of lines :) ).

> is there?).  I have no idea how you would hack this into Vim, other
> than passing the line number into the GUI so it can open right into
> the function that the developer was looking at.

I'll look into what's out there for vim; there's quite a bit of extensibility if you buy into things like the perl support.

-Peff