Re: etags to xref changed navigation

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 25/04/2024 06:34, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Not sure which part of my above-quoted text isn't clear: the ambiguity
> would be "hand waved" away by saying that when the users hits `M-.` without
> doing anything else in between, they are telling Emacs to keep looking
> for the same symbol.  If they want to start a new search, they should
> break the sequence, e.g. with `C-g` or `C-f C-b`, you name it.
>
> IME in most languages `M-.` usually jumps to a symbol which you will
> rarely want to use for a new search.

"Handwaved" indeed, though I'm guessing some singular cases would remain 
where this is different. So the proposed UI sounds "wrong", to me at least.

I wouldn't object to an extra mode or a user option, though. Since 
indeed what you are suggesting would work like the user expects 99% of 
the time.