GNU bug report logs - #22692
25.0.91; xref-find-definitions fails to prompt

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Reported by: Mike Kupfer <m.kupfer <at> acm.org>

Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 01:03:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.91

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 22692 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, m.kupfer <at> acm.org
Subject: bug#22692: 25.0.91; xref-find-definitions fails to prompt
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 20:08:37 +0200

On 02/19/2016 05:59 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> It is a valid use case to try to find out whether a symbol already has
> some definition.  In that case, saying "no definition" is what the
> user will expect for an undefined symbol, so asking for a symbol will
> confuse.

Then we don't need to change anything there, do we?

>> We probably should just remove the word "valid" from there.
>
> That depends on how you will change the behavior ;-)

Zero change is best change. :-)
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