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bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:13:31 +0300 |
> Cc: wbe@psr.com, 28403@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:13:33 +0300
>
> On 9/13/17 6:32 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >> Should it be a defcustom in etags.el, then? That's not far from what I
> >> suggested in the first place.
> >
> > That'd be okay, if the UI will be more friendly than letting the user
> > concoct a list of function symbols.
>
> I'd approve probably any patch that makes
> etags-xref-find-definitions-tag-order into a defcustom, or even creates
> a new option governing it.
>
> But maybe it's not necessary after all? I think we've addressed
> Winston's needs in different ways by now.
I just feel that having a user-friendly defcustom would be more
future-proof. Like I said: it's a fire escape. Every complex feature
needs one.
> Maybe the manual should advertise the necessity to call etags with
> --regexp in certain cases more prominently instead.
Until very recently, --regex didn't even document the
back-substitution feature it provides. So we still have a way to go
in that direction.
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, (continued)
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Winston, 2017/09/09
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Dmitry Gutov, 2017/09/10
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/09/10
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Dmitry Gutov, 2017/09/10
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/09/10
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Dmitry Gutov, 2017/09/11
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/09/11
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Dmitry Gutov, 2017/09/12
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/09/13
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Dmitry Gutov, 2017/09/14
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Dmitry Gutov, 2017/09/18
- bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/09/18
bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Winston, 2017/09/10
bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Winston, 2017/09/10
bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Winston, 2017/09/10
bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Winston, 2017/09/10
bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Winston, 2017/09/10
bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions, Winston, 2017/09/10