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25.0.50; UI inconveniences with M-.

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Message #257 received at 19468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA, 19468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19468: 25.0.50; UI inconveniences with M-.
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 18:01:57 +0300

> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 03:24:03 +0300
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> Cc: 19468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>     That makes a lot of sense when the candidates are equally likely to be
>     The One that the user's looking for.  In the case of etags I think the
>     problem comes from the substring matching it uses.
> 
> etags puts some effort into returning the candidates in the most plausible way. Should we ignore that? etags--xref-find-definitions tries to honor it, at least according to the comment.

etags--xref-find-definitions doesn't honor the etags order well
enough, because it groups the matches by file, whereas the etags
back-end returns them ungrouped.

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