----- Original Message ----- > From: "Erik Rose" <e...@mozilla.com> > To: "Dave Hylands" <dhyla...@mozilla.com> > Cc: "Ehsan Akhgari" <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>, dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 10:58:02 AM > Subject: Re: Poll: What do you need in MXR/DXR? > > > Going back to the idl is probably the best. > > > > It isn't just attributes, though, its also structure definitions as well, > > like: > > http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/ipc/PContent.ipdl#l73 > > > > So if I'm on this line: > > http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/devicestorage/DeviceStorageRequestParent.cpp#l196 > > DeviceStorageFreeSpaceParams doesn't show as a known structure (i.e. no > > Jump to definition) > > Yep. I was just using the attr as an example. Once we get through the current > priorities, I'll take a look at the IDL language and see how huge it is, how > strongly we can reason about which symbols point to what, and so on. That'll > inform whether we put together an IDL plugin for DXR or just index [some] > generated files. I'm sure I'll have more questions in the course of that. > Thanks for the feedback!
Thanks for a great tool :) Dave Hylands _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
