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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | bug#19468: 25.0.50; UI inconveniences with M-. |
Date: | Wed, 29 Apr 2015 01:04:44 +0300 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/36.0 |
On 04/28/2015 05:55 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
I filed this bug report, for starters. I then invested a non-trivial amount of my time into learning this feature, trying different things, describing my experiences, thinking about ways to improve this, etc. And I continue doing that. I hope this does help; if not, feel free to close this bug report as "won't fix" and tell me not to bother anymore.
Let's concentrate on the interface and the current implementations instead.
This feature, including the new UI and API, was introduced 4 months ago, and we still have only 2 back-ends supporting it: ELisp and Ada.
And etags. Three backends isn't exactly the same as "no backends".
They are nothing more than infrastructure waiting for programmers to use it, and those programmers don't seem to be coming. Putting on my cynic hat, I'd say it's a solution looking for the problem.
I didn't see programmers running to improve the built-in C support in Emacs before. Certainly nobody expected to see them running now, simply because xref was introduced.
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