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#19468
25.0.50; UI inconveniences with M-.
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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>
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On 05/01/2015 09:38 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> A language-agnostic UI could well ask the back-end for variables, or
> for functions, or for both, or whatever.
Why would it ask about "functions". How would it know about functions,
or that we want a function right now?
> because etags' default is to produce a 140-long list
> of potential matches, which elisp-mode's xref default is to produce
> only one. In most of my use cases, neither is TRT.
That is no longer true. You should build the current master.
> We shall never second-guess the user. I already described an
> important class of use cases where this assumption is simply wrong.
> It shouldn't probably even be the default.
Either I didn't understand it, or wasn't convinced.
> It's an annoyance to have to use more than one command for a single
> purpose.
By default, I don't want to see the list at all, most of the time, just
jump to the only match. We won't have that if xref-find-definitions is lax.
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