Composite strings as tag

[arichiardi]

Hi, I have a feature request/question and I might be asking the wrong project actually so I apologise in advance.

In Clojure, there are symbol names in the form of either a-symbol, namespace/symbol or :namespace/symbol.

They can all be treated as tags potentially, with their own jump to definitions.

I noticed though that ggtags does not highlight the last two of the list above and I was wondering if there is something I can do, patch can contribute, in order to achieve that.

Thank you very much!

[leoliu]

Probably customise ggtags-bounds-of-tag-function which defaults to using symbols at point.

[arichiardi]

Ok I tried but this does not seem to be what I want...

The bounds are fine, I need to show the whole namespace/symbol and highlight it. The problem is that ggtags does not know that the definition to search for is actually symbol (in the namespace context but I am not sure if tags have a file context or something, sorry very newbie here).

[arichiardi]

I have searched a bit in the code and it seems I might need to tweak ggtags-tag-at-point for achieving what I want, am I on the right track?

[leoliu]

@arichiardi I think global doesn't support namespace.

[arichiardi]

Ok that would be another issue to open there then.

But what can I do to trim the namespace out of the tag that ggtags uses against global?

[leoliu]

@arichiardi

The default should work if point is on the symbol part of namespace/symbol. But if you want it to work when point is on the namespace part, you might need to override ggtags-tag-at-point with define-advice, for example.

[arichiardi]

It does not seem to, I tried a couple of options and it seems that ggtags-current-tag-name is equal to my namespace/symbol and this is not what ctags produces. It seems I will have to advice.