Subject: Re: bug#33870: 27.0.50; xref-goto-xref not configurable

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 03:27:04 +0300

On 19.01.2019 23:45, Juri Linkov wrote:
> Why do you think this display action proposed in my previous patch can't solve this?
> 
>    `((display-buffer-in-previous-window)
>      (previous-window . ,xref--original-window))

Sorry. To be honest, I came to this conclusion partly because neither of 
you likes the other's patch. And you two seem to care more for different 
items in that list.

Both patches are a bit too far from my expertise to review just by reading.

> Then there is no need to use a new relative-window alist entry 'from-window'
> in display-buffer-in-window because xref--original-window is absolute addressing.

This makes sense.

If only that patch were able to keep the current behavior by default.