Subject: bug#49846: 28.0.50; project-find-regexp results does not open target file

From: Pankaj Jangid <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2021 19:32:13 +0530

Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]> writes:

>> There are two options here:
>> 1. We just change the message. Something like: "select a match to
>> open".
>> 2. In addition to above, we may have a customization
>> variable. Something
>>     like - xref-open-first-match
>> For this bug, (1) should be sufficient.
>
> 2. probably won't require a user option, there's no real danger in
> such change.
>
> But which of the (1, 2) do you want to happen?

This is tricky. I want (2). But suppose there is such a variable. Then,

If the value is ‘t’ then open the first link. But if it is ‘nil’ then
again there should be a message of sort “select a match to open”.