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25.0.50; UI inconveniences with M-.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 19468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: bug#19468: 25.0.50; UI inconveniences with M-.
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 20:38:59 +0200

> From: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: dgutov <at> yandex.ru,  monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,  19468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 19:33:07 +0100
> 
> On Tue, Dec 30 2014, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> > What I meant is to do automatically what moving to the first candidate
> >> > does.  It doesn't close any windows, AFAICS, it just displays the
> >> > definition in the upper window, leaving the list in the lower one.
> >> 
> >> If you press RET in *xref* buffer it closes the *xref* window.
> >
> > I meant to simulate the '.' key, not the RET key.
> 
> Then this question was already answered 3 times and here's the fourth
> time: it would display two buffers at the same time which is confusing
> and I had implemented that already and I didn't like it.

I'm not asking you to like it.  I'm asking to provide a user option to
get this behavior, for those who might like it.

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