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[PATCH] New option xref-navigation-display-window-action

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 74361 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#74361: [PATCH] New option xref-navigation-display-window-action
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 03:28:49 +0200

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On 16/11/2024 21:12, Juri Linkov wrote:

> Instead of a new option and 'switch-to-buffer',
> a simpler way would be allow the users just to
> customize the category with 'display-buffer-same-window':
> 
>    (setq display-buffer-alist '(((category . xref)
>                                  (display-buffer-same-window))))
> 
> It works nicely when (category . xref) is added to the same place
> like in your patch in 'xref--show-pos-in-buf':
> 
> ```
> diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/xref.el b/lisp/progmodes/xref.el
> index cf061a18ee0..0193c2e35e0 100644
> --- a/lisp/progmodes/xref.el
> +++ b/lisp/progmodes/xref.el
> @@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ xref--show-pos-in-buf
>                         (eq (window-buffer xref--original-window) buf)))
>                    `((xref--display-buffer-in-window)
>                      (window . ,xref--original-window))))))
> -    (with-selected-window (display-buffer buf action)
> +    (with-selected-window (display-buffer buf (append action '((category . xref))))
>         (xref--goto-char pos)
>         (run-hooks 'xref-after-jump-hook)
>         (selected-window))))
> ```

Thanks! That covers the code path which uses 'display-buffer', and we 
also need to handle xref-pop-to-location, which calls switch-to-buffer 
now. Does

  (pop-to-buffer buf '((display-buffer-same-window) (category . xref)))

look compatible enough?

Also, when using the suggested change in xref--show-pos-in-buf, if we 
simply annotate it with 'category' in the display-buffer call, this also 
extends to the scenarios where xref--original-window-intent is non-nil.

See the attached patch where we make sure to exclude those cases. I 
suppose that loses the semantic consistency, though: 
xref-find-definitions-other-window and xref-find-definitions-other-frame 
are "xref" commands but they will call 'display-buffer' without 'category'.

The corresponding customization (described in the first message) can be:

  (setq display-buffer-alist '(((category . xref)
                                (display-buffer-reuse-window
                                 display-buffer-use-some-window))))

[xref-display-buffer-with-category.diff (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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