Re: [Emacs-diffs] master abd1825: Ensure that we can find definitions when buffer is narrowed

[Charles A. Roelli]

> From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:11:29 +0200
> 
> On 12/11/17 10:23 PM, Charles A. Roelli wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for fixing this.  If I may suggest it, it might also be useful
> > for these functions to respect `widen-automatically':
> 
> Probably not find-function-search-for-symbol though?

Yes, you are right.

> >    widen-automatically is a variable defined in ‘simple.el’.
> >    Its value is t
> > 
> >    Documentation:
> >    Non-nil means it is ok for commands to call ‘widen’ when they want to.
> >    Some commands will do this in order to go to positions outside
> >    the current accessible part of the buffer.
> > 
> >    If ‘widen-automatically’ is nil, these commands will do something else
> >    as a fallback, and won’t change the buffer bounds.
> 
> I wonder if we're using this variable in all the places we should.

Not sure.  Maybe the first step would be to document it and make it
customizable, so that people can find it.  Then we can add support for
it in places that lack it.