permanently disable navigation mode

[jamienicol]

I'm used to, and completely happy with, the regular grep/compilation mode keybindings. Is there any way to disable navigation mode from being turned on?

Great package by the way, thanks!

[leoliu]

Hi jamienicol,

Thank you for the report.

The point of the navigation mode is allowing a few keys in the compilation mode directly accessible without moving to the compilation buffer i.e. ggtags-global. Are you manually switching to that buffer to choose matches? In this case the navigation mode might be annoying indeed. Let me know you workflow so that we can fix it to accommodate more use patterns.

Cheers,
Leo

[jamienicol]

Hi! thanks for the response. my workflow is something like this:

• If there are only a few matches I will usually not change buffer. I'll use compilation mode's M-g n and M-g p to navigate through the matches, I believe these work as long as there is a compilation-mode buffer visible, regardless of which buffer you are in. I suppose navigation mode's M-n and M-p are slightly easier to press, but I'm used to the compilation mode bindings (and use them regularly with grep).
• If there are many matches I will usually switch to the results buffer to look for likely matches.
  • Here, I'm used to using M-n/M-p to move the cursor without selecting and jumping to another match.
  • If I find a likely match I want to press enter (or C-m) to jump to it, but instead that will close the results buffer.
  • I would usually close the buffer by switching to it and pressing q, or just switching to something else.

It may well be possible for navigation mode to be adapted to suit my workflow, but I'd still have a concern that navigating ggtag matches is different than navigating grep matches. For me they are conceptually two very similar tasks, I'm not sure my wee brain can handle navigating them differently.

Cheers.

[leoliu]

Hi jamienicol,

You can now disable the navigation key bindings by setting ggtags-suppress-navigation-keys to t. Could you try it out and send me any comments? Thanks.

Leo

[jamienicol]

It works perfectly! Thank you so much.

Jamie

[jamienicol]

One wee thing I've noticed actually:

With my workflow there's no specific point at which I exit navigation-mode. Enter now does what it does in regular compilation mode, so I'll probably just switch away from the results buffer at some point rather than press enter to explicitly exit it. This leaves navigation-mode enabled indefinitely.

The only side-effect I've encountered of this is that the "GG[x/y]" remains in my modeline forever. To be honest, I don't ever find this useful at all and it just takes up space in my modeline, even more so when I've finish searching through the results. Is there any way to hide this?

Out of interest is there a reason why you chose an option to disable the keys, rather than an option to simply not enable navigation mode at all? Are there any other side-effects of navigation mode, other than the keys and the modeline?

[leoliu]

If you kill the ggtags-global buffer the mode is off. Or you can turn it off completely by using this snippet:

(eval-after-load 'ggtags
  '(defalias 'ggtags-navigation-mode 'ignore))

[jamienicol]

perfect. thank you for being so helpful and thanks again for ggtags, it's
great.
On 22 Mar 2014 15:27, "Leo Liu" notifications@github.com wrote:

If you kill the ggtags-global buffer the mode is off. Or you can turn
it off completely by using this snippet:

(eval-after-load 'ggtags
'(defalias 'ggtags-navigation-mode 'ignore))

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/40#issuecomment-38354365
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[leoliu]

Glad to help and thanks for the feedback.

[leoliu]

The lighter can now be disabled by setting ggtags-navigation-mode-lighter to nil since f378376