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25.0.91; xref-find-definitions fails to prompt

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Message #53 received at 22692 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 22692 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, m.kupfer <at> acm.org
Subject: Re: bug#22692: 25.0.91; xref-find-definitions fails to prompt
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 20:37:44 +0200

> Cc: 22692 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, m.kupfer <at> acm.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> 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?

Yes, I think so.

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

No, I meant the change you wanted to make in finding the symbol at
point, to avoid looking for it anywhere on the same line.

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