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25.0.50; UI inconveniences with M-.

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Message #323 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: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:48:48 +0300

> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 01:28:53 +0300
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> CC: monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA, 19468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>         M-x xref-find-references, for starters.
> 
>     It doesn't seem to work for me: it says "no references found" whatever
>     symbol I try, even those I know are referenced.  What am I missing?
> 
> Do you know how to implement the "all uses" search using only a tags file?

I didn't try that in xref-etags-mode, I tried that with the default
back-end.

> Likewise for Elisp.

Using ID-Utils is one possible way, I guess.  Using Grep is another
(much less efficient one).

> So, sorry to say, both currently implemented backends don't support it.

Too bad.

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