Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 b1aaa72: Improve documentation of Xref

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Maybe xref could have an ad-hoc hack which does:
>> - if there's no match
>> - and there's a tags table installed.
>> - and there's a match in the tags table.
>> - then kindly suggest to the user to activate xref-etags-mode
> Is that going to be a temporary measure?

I was thinking about it as something temporary, yes.

> If so, when do we phase it out?

Good question.  Given that the original change was introduced in
Emacs-25.1, it doesn't make sense to keep such a hack very long, so if
it's too late to put it in Emacs-26.1 (which seems likely), then it's
probably too late full stop.


        Stefan