GNU bug report logs - #19468
25.0.50; UI inconveniences with M-.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:27:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #155 received at 19468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,
 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 19468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19468: 25.0.50; UI inconveniences with M-.
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 01:02:36 +0300
On 04/27/2015 07:30 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> There should very much be other backends on the way, e.g. using Semantic
> (for C/C++), SLIME (for CL), ...

Both CIDER and SLIME look like a good candidate among third-party 
packages. I also intend to use it in Robe (which can't be added to GNU 
ELPA because of inf-ruby dependency; it's also begging for a rewrite...)

>>     . The doc string of xref-find-function mentions several variants of
>>       invoking the function, but there doesn't seem to be any way of
>>       controlling that when invoking the function interactively, is
>>       there?  I think it would be good to be able to lookup only the
>>       definitions or only the references of a symbol.

`M-.' only looks up definitions. Or at least, that's the .

> Indeed, the current UI does not offer access to all features of the API.

There is M-x xref-find-references. Neither of the two current backends 
implements it, though (but I know SLIME has such a feature, and CEDET 
probably has something comparable). We could bind it to `C-M-?.





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