Re: tags-loop-continue

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 01/10/2016 06:45 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> tags-loop-continue is also used by Dired, see 'A' and 'Q' in
> "Operating on Files".

I'm fairly sure these commands are more obscure, and used considerably 
less frequently than find-tag, or xref-find-definitions that's poised to 
replace it. C-, is too nice a key binding to spend on them.

If we want to retain some global binding for tags-loop-continue, let's 
move it to C-*.

> Look at this from the user's POV: these two commands, as well as
> tags-search and tags-query-replace, are still available, so users will
> expect to be able to continue them as they did before.  How can we
> explain to them that the keybinding for that command changed?

In the NEWS file, and in the manual?

> Other than that, what technical solution is used to keep the command
> and its keybinding available is unimportant, I think.

It doesn't seem like tags-search uses any special keymap during its 
execution.