162951 - Add ability to forward line numbers through file search

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Webtools Graveyard :: MXR, enhancement)

Description

[Alec Flett]

Some debugging tools only give you the filename and linenumber by default - it
would be neat to hook them up to lxr, but you have to search for the file.

I think it would be quite cool if you could pass the line numbers through the
filename search, and it would append them to the links as anchors.

What do I mean?
lets say I want to look in the file "nsXULDocument.cpp" on line 47. I could put
the url into lxr as
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/find?string=nsXULDocument.cpp&line=47

then the only match it finds would have the link:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/content/xul/document/src/nsXULDocument.cpp#47

Comment 1

[timeless]

do you really need to rely on lxr? bonsai can do this:
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsguess.cgi?file=nsXULDocument.cpp&mark=47

Comment 2

[Alec Flett]

oh neat. That's good... but I still want it through lxr. Maybe cvsguess can be
tweaked to support lxr too.

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

reassigning endico's bugs to default owner

Comment 4

[Chase Phillips]

Mass reassign of open bugs for [e-mail] to [e-mail].

Comment 5

[J. Paul Reed [:preed]]

Reassigning all LXR bugs assigned to [e-mail] to the default LXR owner (sorry Bear!)

We aren't actively working on these (if that's wrong, please reassign to yourself/a real person). 

Comment 6

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

mxr is gone, mass closing.
https://searchfox.org/ is a much better alternative.