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2024-03-17; Populate `semantic-symref-filepattern-alist'

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From: David Fussner <dfussner <at> googlemail.com>
To: Ikumi Keita <ikumi <at> ikumi.que.jp>
Cc: 71245 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#71245: 2024-03-17; Populate `semantic-symref-filepattern-alist'
Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 19:21:36 +0100

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Thanks very much Keita. In the meantime, if there's any related feedback on
the Emacs thread I'll get back to you.

Best, David.

On Wed, 29 May 2024, 16:50 Ikumi Keita, <ikumi <at> ikumi.que.jp> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> >>>>> David Fussner <dfussner <at> googlemail.com> writes:
> > 1. How false are these false positives? If it's a project with plain
> > TeX and LaTeX files, there's always a certain amount of overlap
> > anyway, and that includes amsTeX, too. ConTeXt is another problem, so
> > it will depend somewhat on the nature of the project.
>
> > 2. If you create a TAGS file in the project, then typically that will
> > cover all the .tex files, too, so the other xref commands may find
> > hits across the various TeX varieties, and therefore
> > `xref-find-references' won't be an outlier in that respect.
>
> > 3. I also feel -- quite strongly as it happens -- that false negatives
> > are worse than false positives. If you've a .tex file open and do M-?
> > in it then you won't even see the hit point is on, but only hits from
> > whatever other file extensions happen to belong to the initial file's
> > major mode. Currently, in the case of plain TeX or ams TeX, that means
> > no hits, which is sort of weird and very frustrating when you're
> > looking at one on your screen. In a LaTeX .tex file you'll also not
> > get the hit you're actually looking at on your screen, but this might
> > be disguised by hits from other file extensions. I think this is much
> > more misleading than any false positives, but I concede that others
> > may not feel as strongly about this as I do.
>
> Thank you for your reply. I understand your concern about false
> negatives and think that I'll apply your patch to AUCTeX repository if
> there are no objections. There would be only small amount of false
> positives under practical situations and we can add a new customize
> option mentioned in my previous message if there are many complaints
> about them anyway.
>
> Let's wait for 3-4 days to see whether there are objections or not.
>
> Regards,
> Ikumi Keita
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