Subject: Re: bug#42967: 28.0.50; `dired-do-find-regexp' calls internal function `xref--show-xrefs'

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 00:10:35 +0300

On 21.08.2020 18:35, Philipp Stephani wrote:

> If the functionality of `xref--show-xrefs' is useful
> for other libraries, xref.el should grow a proper public function that
> then remains stable.

Sure.

 > In fact, the signature of `xref--show-xrefs' has changed between
 > Emacs 26 and 27.

That didn't hurt Dired, though.

In fact, this is about the main advantage to having these features 
developed together: not having to maintain stable boundaries without 
them. They can be changed in tandem.