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27.0.50; xref-goto-xref not configurable

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>, João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 33870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rudalics <at> gmx.at, eliz <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#33870: 27.0.50; xref-goto-xref not configurable
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 02:46:54 +0300

On 08.01.2019 01:16, Juri Linkov wrote:
>> After re-reading your patch more closely and giving it some more
>> testing, I've discovered it breaks an existing use case:
>>
>>     Emacs -Q
>>     C-x 2 ;; split-window-horizontally
>>     C-x 4 . ;; xref-find-definitions-other-window
>>     xref-backend-definitions RET
>>     C-n RET ;; in the resulting *xref* buffer
> 
> Of course, it doesn't work if you tried it only with part of my changes.
> When I submitted my initial patch, I tested it in all your test cases,
> including the above test case that was not broken with my patch.
> 
> But you asked to break my patch to several pieces and submit them
> separately to different bug reports.  No wonder that each of them
> doesn't do what the whole patch did.

We asked to split the patch into "retains old behavior while allowing 
certain customization" and "changes behavior".

Is that not feasible?

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