GNU bug report logs - #31027
27.0.50; xref, tags-location-ring equivalent

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: charles <at> aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli)

Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 18:08:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 27.0.50

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Message #14 received at 31027 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: "Charles A. Roelli" <charles <at> aurox.ch>, 31027 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31027: 27.0.50; xref, tags-location-ring equivalent
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 23:32:26 +0300
On 4/2/18 9:06 PM, Charles A. Roelli wrote:
> tags-location-ring seems to have no replacement in xref.el.
> 
> from etags.el:
> (defvar tags-location-ring (make-ring xref-marker-ring-length)
>    "Ring of markers which are locations visited by \\[find-tag].
> Pop back to the last location with \\[negative-argument] \\[find-tag].")
> 
> We should add a "xref-location-ring" (or similar) that stores the
> locations visited by "xref-find-definitions", and we can allow jumping
> to them with C-u - M-., in the same way as "find-tag" does.

What about 'M-x previous error'? Or 'C-u - M-x next-error', to mirror 
your example.




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