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bug#19468: 25.0.50; UI inconveniences with M-.
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#19468: 25.0.50; UI inconveniences with M-. |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Apr 2015 00:30:41 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> . I tried the ELisp back-end and found that it somehow affects the
> UI, so that the UI behaves differently than with the default
> etags back-end, when the user types something that is "complete,
> but not unique": when using the etags back-end, Emacs displays a
> list of candidates in the *xref* buffer, whereas with the
> elisp-mode back-end it shows the "complete" candidate, doesn't
> display *xref*, and doesn't insert the other candidates into
> *xref*. Is this difference intended? It's confusing, to say the
> least.
I don't understand exactly the scenario you're talking about. Can you
give a recipe?
> But what are the alternatives, if any? I could only find
> something related in ada-mode and in elisp-mode. This means
> that, for example, for C/C++ and Java, etags is the only
> available back-end, and this change is currently just a different
> UI wrapping the same basic functionality? Is there any further
> development planned for the near future?
There should very much be other backends on the way, e.g. using Semantic
(for C/C++), SLIME (for CL), ...
> . The doc string of xref-find-function mentions several variants of
> invoking the function, but there doesn't seem to be any way of
> controlling that when invoking the function interactively, is
> there? I think it would be good to be able to lookup only the
> definitions or only the references of a symbol.
Indeed, the current UI does not offer access to all features of the API.
Improvements welcome,
Stefan
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