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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | bug#19468: 25.0.50; UI inconveniences with M-. |
Date: | Tue, 28 Apr 2015 01:09:40 +0300 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/36.0 |
On 04/27/2015 06:07 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
This puts you at the first line of find-tag, without showing the other possible symbols whose names contain "find-tag" as their substring. If you want the other candidates, you need to type TAB instead of RET, and then select the one you want via the usual completion facilities.
Yes, if you want all matches, try `xref-find-apropos' (bound to `C-M-.'). Usually I prefer the new, more precise behavior of `M-.'.
I guess the elisp-mode back-end returns just one candidate, whereas the etags back-end returns a list. But it's confusing to have such evident differences just because you changed the back-end, I think.
etags showing all matches is, in general, the limitation of the tags file format. But if someone submits a patch making it more precise without creating false negatives, I'm all for it.
And hey, you changed the back-end. It uses a different mechanism under the covers. *Of course* you're going to get different results, in many cases.
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