GNU bug report logs - #32510
xref-find-definitions should return file names, too

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Message #20 received at 32510 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic <at> ludovic-brenta.org>, 32510 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 control <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#32510: acknowledged by developer (control message for bug
 #32510)
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 16:25:49 -0700 (PDT)

> reopen 32510
> thanks
> 
> Please [d]o not close this bug so summarily.  Quoting the doc-string of
> find-tag:
> 
> This function is obsolete since 25.1;
> use ‘xref-find-definitions’ instead.
> 
> This bug report states that a useful functionality of find-tag is *not*
> provided by its official replacement, xref-find-definitions.  This is a
> regression.  Just because you think this missing functionality should be
> provided elsewhere is not a good reason to close this bug without
> providing any solution.

+1

And I don't think that `find-tag' should be deprecated
(obsolete).  Its "replacement" is simply a different
command, with some things in common and some things
different.  Both have their uses; each can be preferred
by some users for some things.

(I also don't think that the default key binding of
`find-tag' should have been hijacked for its
"replacement", but that's a different and lesser problem.)

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