Subject: Re: bug#23223: 25.0.92; Can xref-find-references be sped up?

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 02:11:39 +0300

On 04/06/2016 08:20 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Sounds like a bug in reporting matches.

A bug in the matcher, maybe?

> We invoke lid with the -w
> switch, which should have reported only complete symbols, AFAIU
> (although the documentation confusingly talks about "words").  Perhaps
> report this to the developers.

I suspected the wording would mean that it just invokes Grep and uses 
the "boundary" anchors (\b), but no, doing a Grep search for 
"\beval-when\b" yields a bigger (and more consistent) set of matches.

So it's most likely a bug.