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Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: joaotavora <at> gmail.com, 44611 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 18:20:29 +0200

Hi Eli,

On 23.12.2020 17:08, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> There are already two different modes: the first is
>> defined by the user option xref-show-definitions-function
>> (by default, xref--show-defs-buffer), the second is defined by
>> xref-show-xrefs-function (by default, xref--show-xref-buffer).
>>
>> It's fine to use TAB to bury the output buffer in the first case,
>> but not in the second case.
> I'm okay with this distinction, provided we decide that we will try to
> keep only these two variants, as much as possible.

Let me get this straight:

You oppose changing the TAB binding, which is currently documented to be 
present in the UI for both cases (and *is* present).

But you're fine with creating a +1 subtly different behavior between the 
cases, by changing the TAB binding in only one of them?

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