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Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: 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: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 20:53:14 +0200

On 27.12.2020 18:22, Juri Linkov wrote:
>> On the subject of grep-mode, it could have a similar command introduced
>> too, for situations when you only needed to find one occurrence, to jump to
>> it and quit the window.
> This is what I already successfully use:
> 
> diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/compile.el b/lisp/progmodes/compile.el
> index d2293151c7..08c44dcb25 100644
> --- a/lisp/progmodes/compile.el
> +++ b/lisp/progmodes/compile.el
> @@ -2572,11 +2572,15 @@ compile-goto-error
>     (or (compilation-buffer-p (current-buffer))
>         (error "Not in a compilation buffer"))
>     (compilation--ensure-parse (point))
> +  (let ((window (posn-window (event-end event))))
>       (if (get-text-property (point) 'compilation-directory)
>           (dired-other-window
>            (car (get-text-property (point) 'compilation-directory)))
>         (setq compilation-current-error (point))
> -    (next-error-internal)))
> +      (next-error-internal))
> +    (when current-prefix-arg
> +      (with-selected-window window
> +        (quit-window)))))

So... if others like it, we could keep just this binding (C-u RET) for 
"quit the window and go to location", in both Grep and Xref.

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