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

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Message #173 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 01:44:15 +0300

On 04/27/2015 08:35 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> btw the defun I'm probably after is not the first or second hit there;
>> looks like the candidates are arranged in the alphabetical order of
>> the *.el files).
>
> Indeed, the ordering looks incorrect.  This is a bug.

The idea here is to group candidates belonging to different files 
together. Sorting the files alphabetically after that is the first 
natural choice, but how else to do it better?

- Should xref always try to preserve the order in which xrefs are 
returned? Some backends might not mean anything by it.

- Suppose one xref in a.el is returned before all xrefs in b.el. And 
another xref in a.el is returned after. In what order will we display 
a.el and b.el?

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