Re: UI inconveniences with M-.

[Stefan Monnier]

[ Moving this to emacs-devel.  ]

> Hmm, maybe we should introduce a new category, for reading symbols.  Aside
> from xref, we could use it in describe-function/variable/etc.

Sounds fine to me.  Tho "symbol" might be a tad too generic.

> Although the fact that it tries prefix matches first, and only falls back to
> substring matches, doesn't look too terrible to me.

Not sure what you're saying here.  Indeed, for buffers,
completion-category-defaults says to first try prefix matching and
fallback on substring only if that fails.  This was done mostly to
reduce friction when the change was introduced.


        Stefan