Jumping to `defvar' in the same file in .el files

[srustamo]

I'm not so sure (and the docs are not clear on this) how calling dumb-jump-go in in an .el file behaves.

Say, this is a a file:

1 (defvar emacs-d
2 (file-name-directory
3   load-file-name))

4 (setq package-user-dir
5      (expand-file-name "elpa" emacs-d))

Say, I'm on line 5, point is on emacs-d symbol and run dumb-jump-go.

What I get is (without .dumbjump and if the dir contains many files) Took over 2s to find ’emacs-d’. Please install ag or rg, or add a .dumbjump file to ’/Users/xx3’ with path exclusions.

So, it looks like line 1 defvar is not found.

[jacktasia]

Your example works fine for me. Looks like your operating out of your home directory, or a directory with nothing to denote its project root (so it's defaulting to ~), and dumb-jump is going to search all child directories recursively. I recommend you look at this issue: #128

[srustamo]

I freshly clone this repo, and open init.el in the root and do dumb-jump-go on line 18 of the file (which is what the opening issue was about), and still get this subject error.

GNU Emacs 25.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, Carbon Version 157 AppKit 1265.21)
of 2017-04-26

[srustamo]

Incidentally, this package functions work fine on a C project, other things being equal.

[jacktasia]

Thanks for the example. Your rush-emacs project has a .gitignore of just *. Most searchers (like ag) respect the .gitignore file and do not search anything that matches it. If you remove the full wildcard * then dumb-jump works as expected.

https://github.com/srustamo/rush-emacs/blob/master/.gitignore

[srustamo]

Thank you.