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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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: wbe <at> psr.com, 28403 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:13:33 +0300

On 9/13/17 6:32 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Should it be a defcustom in etags.el, then? That's not far from what I
>> suggested in the first place.
> 
> That'd be okay, if the UI will be more friendly than letting the user
> concoct a list of function symbols.

I'd approve probably any patch that makes 
etags-xref-find-definitions-tag-order into a defcustom, or even creates 
a new option governing it.

But maybe it's not necessary after all? I think we've addressed 
Winston's needs in different ways by now.

Maybe the manual should advertise the necessity to call etags with 
--regexp in certain cases more prominently instead.
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