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

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Winston <wbe <at> psr.com>, 28403 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions
 doesn't; bug?
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 22:58:37 +0000 (UTC)

> Today I noticed the message about find-tag being (supposedly)
> obsoleted by xref-find-definitions as of Emacs version 25.1,

Does it really say that `find-tag' is "obsolete"?  Ah, yes
it does.  I'm surprised.  That's too bad.

We couldn't just have *added* the `xref' stuff, as an
alternative?  Bad enough that keys bound by default to other
commands were immediately sacrificed to xref, but deprecating
those other commands?

> So, xref-find-definitions is not yet a complete replacement
> for find-tag.  Since etags puts such lines in TAGS and
> xref-find-definitions is unable to match up the name with
> the tag, it looks like a bug / deficiency in
> xref-find-definitions.

Dommage.  On n'arrete pas le progres...
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