GNU bug report logs - #28403
25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions doesn't; bug?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Winston <wbe <at> psr.com>

Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 22:41:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.2

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #106 received at 28403 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: wbe <at> psr.com, 28403 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 06:58:10 +0300

> Cc: wbe <at> psr.com, 28403 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 03:44:28 +0300
> 
> On 9/14/17 8:13 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > I just feel that having a user-friendly defcustom would be more
> > future-proof.  Like I said: it's a fire escape.  Every complex feature
> > needs one.
> 
> My point is if we document it enough for the majority of the users to 
> find it, it would also make it more likely that they go the fire escape 
> route instead of using etags in the right way. And then get some other 
> wrong impression about xref-find-definitions.

Fire escapes don't have to be documented, just pointed out when and if
someone really needs them.
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