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25.0.50; Format and behavior of *xref* buffer is non-standard

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut <at> gmail.com>, 20487 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20487: 25.0.50; Format and behavior of *xref* buffer is non-standard
Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 05:24:50 +0300

On 05/04/2015 01:20 AM, Vitalie Spinu wrote:

> Keywords usually have striking colors and are often bold. It's fine for
> short identifiers but if you highlight the whole line it clutters the
> view. Maybe font-lock-variable-name-face as an alternative?

I think let's keep the default for now. It has a plus side: the backends 
can return buffer lines with syntax highlighting applied. 
semantic-symref looks like that too.

An added face might be nice, but probably one that sets the background 
color.

> It's just that, in case of xref-find-definitions, grouping is done
> mostly for one observation which still doesn't make much sense to
> me. But you are right; there are xref-find-references and
> xref-find-apropos out there and making separate interfaces for those
> would be silly.

I think so. And hopefully, the "find definitions" search will result in 
one unique result most of the time.

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