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an Emacs "jump to definition" package for 60+ languages

15 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 2 stories, 13 comments · first 2016-03-23 · latest 2026-09-24

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  1. emacs has dumb-jump https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump exactly for this, and is often good enough. it uses ripgrep (or some such) for faster-than-grep queries.
    comment by signa11 · 2026-09-24 · in Why building a Rust LSP is hard
  2. I have been using https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump to quickly jump to definitions. LSP is hit or miss; in some languages, it works great, while in others, the implementation is not so good. I have been thinking about a middle ground…
    comment by ananthakumaran · 2026-03-28 · in The Future of SCIP
  3. …Neovim is pretty much instant using fzf-lua or any-jump, the latter is based on the emacs package https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump
    comment by saint_yossarian · 2024-08-30 · in Lem: Emacs-like editor written in Common Lisp
  4. …clangd but found that really all I need is a little bit of elisp to call clang-format, dumb-jump (< https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump >) to jump to definition, and project-compile to build the project and collect warnings/errors into…
    comment by matthews2 · 2022-09-06 · in My goal of closing 10% of Emacs bugs (2020)
  5. …but alas, no-can-do! Emacs' dumb-jump appears to have some basic support for go to definition: https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump/blob/master/dumb-jump... But out of curiosity, what is the issue from a technical point of view?
    comment by daptaq · 2022-09-02 · in Crystal Programming Language
  6. …say that you may find something as simple as dumb-jump[1] does what you want most of the time. [1] https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump
    comment by natrys · 2022-02-12 · in Building an Intelligent Emacs
  7. …that do not have a company-mode backend, there's also dumb-jump for getting to definitions( https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump ).
    comment by cyrialize · 2020-04-15 · in Emacs: The most successful malleable system
  8. …have and a bare minimum understanding of the language syntax to find likely correct definitions. https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump
    comment by dleslie · 2020-02-07 · in Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? (2005)
  9. My package dumb-jump might be what you want: https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump
    comment by jacktasia · 2019-08-29 · in Emacs 26.3
  10. I recently discovered `dumb-jump`, and now use it all the time. https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump
    comment by dleslie · 2017-11-22 · in A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)
  11. You could give Dumb Jump a shot: https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump
    comment by cgdub · 2017-11-22 · in A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)
  12. Sounds like you might be interested in my dumb-jump package: https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump
    comment by jacktasia · 2017-07-29 · in 'Using Emacs' Series
  13. Another tool that uses ag to look for tags (emacs): https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump
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    Dumb-jump: an Emacs “jump to definition” package
    story by jacktasia · 2016-05-26 · 50 comments
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