Re: UI inconveniences with M-.

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 05/02/2015 03:57 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > That's not entirely true. Think of bug#18285, for example.
>
> Which part of what I said was not entirely true there?

We've discussed the design, to some extent? And the tradeoffs?

At least that's how it looked for me.

> xref.el uses facilities I never used, so for me it means I'd need to
> study those as well.  Please believe me that when I said it's more
> than I could invest, I already explored some of the code.

I specifically mentioned only looking a xref-find-function in xref.el, 
not anything else. That's the whole point of the abstraction.

But I've no reason to disbelieve you anyway.

> I can be that user, at least in some cases.  Although the experience
> of this bug report doesn't encourage me to get involved in more.

You've got the "find references" implementation out of it, haven't you?

> I'm talking about projects that are already deployed, sometimes for
> years.

And yet you're worried what one of them could do to your machine when 
loaded into memory?