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bug#19466: 25.0.50; xref-find-def doesn't find C functions
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#19466: 25.0.50; xref-find-def doesn't find C functions |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Jan 2015 11:00:56 +0200 |
> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 06:37:46 +0300
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> CC: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 19466@debbugs.gnu.org,
> Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>,
> martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
>
> On 01/05/2015 06:36 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > So there's no way of browsing the definition and keeping the list of
> > candidates available, except by scrolling the definition from another
> > window? That's indeed surprising.
>
> Right, maybe the quit-window approach would be less surprising overall.
>
> The alternative implementation was pushed to scratch/xref, and it's
> waiting for Martin's comments (bug#19468).
Thanks.
> > Why is that insistence on restoring the window configuration useful?
> > Emacs users should be already used to the fact that Emacs pops buffers
> > in windows all the time, so IMO there's nothing terribly wrong in
> > leaving the window configuration changed.
>
> Basically, I want the user to be able to easily return to the window
> configuration that was before xref-find-definitions was called. Or, if
> they picked a definition, make the process of selecting not leave its
> traces on the window configuration.
I understand your desire. I just think you are fighting a losing
battle, and in the process surprise the users with less than friendly
behavior.
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