GNU bug report logs - #44611
Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref

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Message #117 received at 44611 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 44611 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, joaotavora <at> gmail.com, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: Re: bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 20:45:22 +0200

On 23.12.2020 18:46, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I still prefer that we don't change the TAB binding at all.  But since
> Juri applies pressure (and evidently doesn't consider this difference
> between the behaviors in these two cases to be an issue)

I do consider it a problem, however.

Having a less intuitive and more error-prone resulting interface just 
because we're afraid to change things (any thing?) is bad.

Why fight for this binding, really? It hasn't been there *that* long, 
and apparently it has zero known users. The original author included.

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