GNU bug report logs - #59381
Should xref--marker-ring be per-window?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2022 09:26:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 59381 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 59381 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59381: Should xref--marker-ring be per-window?
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2022 20:53:46 +0200

> While using xref (xref-find-definitions and xref-find-references, etc)
> in separate windows, I hit M-, to pop the marker stack expecting that
> each window should have a separate stack.
>
> However, it seems that the entire emacs instance shares a single
> xref--marker ring.
>
> Could we have separate xref--marker-rings per window, or some
> configuration option to enable that?

Ideally, making an existing variable window-local should be as easy
as making it buffer-local, e.g.:

  (make-variable-buffer-local 'xref--history)
  ->
  (make-variable-window-local 'xref--history)

But we are not here so far.
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