Lisp find definition doesn't always work

[Sasanidas]

Lisp find definition doesn't always work

[cxxxr]

This is because the package you are currently running (lem-lisp-mode/internal) and the package of the target symbol (lem-lisp-mode/inspector) are different.

[cxxxr]

To do this, I suppose the following two phases are necessary.

• Finding a specific symbol by mode name (e.g. Add find-major-mode-by-name)
• Fetch the location of the symbol definition

[Sasanidas]

I see, seems like I overlook the find definition function (indeed without the full name with package makes sense that it cannot find it).

I think I found a "good-enough" way of doing it (even tho it's a little bit hackish):

(define-command fer/goto-major-mode () ()
  (let ((current-mode (lem:buffer-major-mode (lem:current-buffer))))
    (lem-lisp-mode/internal::display-xref-locations
        (lem-lisp-mode/internal::find-definitions-by-name
         (format nil "~a::~a"
                 (package-name (symbol-package current-mode))
                 (symbol-name current-mode))))))

[Sasanidas]

I think this solution works well enough, so I'll close the issue 👍