Re: More precise tag following

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