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Re: xref-find-matches and stuff


From: Dmitry Gutov
Subject: Re: xref-find-matches and stuff
Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 15:39:00 +0300
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On 05/04/2015 12:17 PM, Helmut Eller wrote:

With a separate xref-find-matches command it would make sense for
xref-find-apropos to work more like the normal apropos, with doc-strings
and such.
They still have different purposes, but sure, we can make an 
xref-with-doc element or something, which would render itself with a 
docstring.
Ideally use the same UI as Elisp's apropos.
That might be more complicated: a) the element would need to be 
specialized for the elisp backend, with type and plist, b) pressing RET 
in M-x apropos output does not get you to the symbol's definition; 
instead you jump between various Help buffers. I don't know if we want 
that for xref-find-apropos, that's certainly hard to generalize across 
languages.
If we're going to modify something then location info better be super
accurate.
The "search and replace" interface would have to be something like M-x 
tags-query-replace, at least at first. It's using a regexp, so people 
are probably used to confirming each replacement.


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